• Deloitte confirms PIA’s no-log claims, with servers running on RAM-only system for maximum privacy.
  • Independent audit verifies PIA’s infrastructure is not vulnerable to third-party exploitation, ensuring online activity remains private.
  • PIA offers full transparency with open-source apps and regular third-party audits, proving its commitment to data protection.
  • @[email protected]
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    126 months ago

    I am dedicated to Proton to be honest but PIA always seemed good to me based on these type of situations and audits.

    • @Molecular0079
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      346 months ago

      I think there was some bad vibes when they got bought by a less than reputable company a while back. I know a lot of people, myself included switched to Mullvad. I am on Proton now though for the port forwarding.

      • @MrPoopbutt
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        46 months ago

        What is the benefit of port forwarding?

        • @johannesvanderwhales
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          46 months ago

          The most common use case is probably bittorrent. Without port forwarding, you won’t be connectable. But anything where someone might need to connect to your local machine from the internet, like hosting game servers or other self-hosting.

          • prole
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            16 months ago

            I recently switched to Mullvad and have had no issues torrenting

            • @johannesvanderwhales
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              56 months ago

              You have no problem downloading because your client is initiating the connection. But people won’t be able to initiate a connection to you. If you’re just leeching off public trackers and don’t care about your ratio, then that might not matter to you. But if you’re trying to maintain a ratio on a good quality private tracker that’s a no go.

              You can use a site like this with your VPN ip and the port you have configured for bittorrent while your bittorrent client is up to see if you’re connectable.

    • Dark Arc
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      66 months ago

      PIA was good until they got bought out. That’s when my friend and I switched our VPNs (me to proton, him to express).

      A shady parent company isn’t what you want in a VPN.

      • @doublejay1999
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        176 months ago

        … um……Express is also owned by Kape

        • Dark Arc
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          6 months ago

          It wasn’t at the time he switched … I think he looked at some other options after that, but might have just stayed.

          For whatever reason he wasn’t getting the performance he wanted from Proton in Texas.

      • @[email protected]
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        96 months ago

        On September 13, 2021, it was reported that ExpressVPN had been acquired by Kape Technologies, an LSE-listed digital privacy and security company

      • @I_Miss_Daniel
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        6 months ago

        I’m on Express VPN only because they apparently specialise in avoiding geoblocks and VPN detection for overseas TV sites etc. (Plus three months free for being a TWiT.) So far it’s true for BBC iPlayer, RTe Player and UK Channel 4. For this purpose I’m not overly worried about how log-resistant they are, but interesting to keep up with the score here. The integrated ‘ad blocking’ is also useful, but slower than AdGuard as it seems pages have to wait for assets to fail to load before displaying rather than just being 404’d.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          I wonder how they manage to bypass the geo-location blocks? I would if they frequently rotate their IP Addresses with fresh ones.

          • @I_Miss_Daniel
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            16 months ago

            Possibly, or they have multiple entry points on residential ISP blocks and don’t have too many people NAT’d per IP so it looks legit. That would explain the higher costs.