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Hakim recently promoted Atlas VPN in one of his videos. If you have tried it, what has been your experience with it? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/thedeprogram@lemmygrad.ml
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It is 1.85 dollars a month if one pays for 3 years. I am looking into ways of saving money so I was thinking into switching. However, I am a bit worried since 3 years ago I did the same with Nord VPN and it is sooo buggy. It rarely ever works for me. I had to switch to ProtonVPN after paying for 3 years for Nord ๐Ÿ’€.

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[โ€“] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

No VPN service is free. If you're not paying them, they're profiting off of you having their VPN service in some other way (like Onavo, which sold your VPN traffic).

I don't trust a VPN provider that I have not given a reason to not sell my data.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well they usually have a small selection of slower free servers and a lot of faster ones locked behind a premium wall. Does this not substitute as profit for them?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Depends on the provider, but probably they would be analyzing the traffic of the free users the very most to profit off of them. Maybe they're trying to convert them to paying users, maybe they're selling the data, and it could be tricky to figure out which.

    The "free" servers aren't free, they have some specific reason why it's profitable for them to run servers where users aren't paying with money. They're capitalists.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    And what would prevent paid VPNs from selling data to have even bigger profits? Its all a gamble, be it free VPN or not.

    In the end of the day I just want to pay less

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's a gamble if you haven't done research into which VPN providers are trustworthy. r/VPN has a decent comparison table (maybe there's a good community on the fediverse? I haven't checked). You can find discounts for VPN providers from that table that seem trustworthy to you at r/vpncoupons (not aware of a fediverse replacement for that either).

    The privacy-friendly VPN providers have one thing in common: they're all paid, afaik.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Thanks for the link ๐Ÿ‘

    But I am a little concerned that the most popular VPNs rank the highest

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