<div dir="auto">Does anyone have experience with virtual shield?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 8, 2017 12:55 PM, "Eric Oyen" <<a href="mailto:eric.oyen@icloud.com">eric.oyen@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I pay about $7 a month for private internet access. good throughput and good protections all around. find them here: <a href="http://www.privateinternetaccess.com" target="_blank">www.privateinternetaccess.com</a><div><br></div><div>-eric</div><div>from the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Hiding in plain sight Dept.</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 8, 2017, at 12:24 AM, Victor Odhner wrote:</div><br class="m_-5791540453370525413Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><b>I’m due to renew my subscription to Hotspot Shield as my VPN provider.</b><br><div><br></div><div>Before I spend more on this, anybody have another recommendation? I’m willing to pay.</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>What I want in a VPN is some protection of my ID and data, </b>most importantly when I’m using a public hotspot but even when I’m at home on Cox.</div><div><br></div><div><b>So based on your experience, anyone see a better choice for that specific purpose?</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>I noted these comments in a recent discussion of VPN services:<div><div><ul><li>I've used ProtonVPN for a bit. They seem OK, and have a solid privacy policy, though their service quality on the free tier is low.</li><li>I use both VPN Unlimited and PIA VPN. </li><li>I've used ProtonVPN for a bit. They seem OK, and have a solid privacy policy,</li><li>I'm fond of <a href="http://ipredator.se/" target="_blank">ipredator.se</a>. I'm unfond of vypervpn. </li><li>I use ip vanish on my PC and my phone.</li><li>OpenVPN comes to the top of my list</li></ul></div>Hotspot Shield has been OK. My only gripe is that sometimes Google Maps decides I’m in Brazil or the UK and I can’t dissuade it, even though I had been using USA as my country.</div><div><br></div><div>I have to turn VPN off to get to certain sites, but I presume any VPN would be recognized and blocked by those sites.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Hotspot Shield works pretty smoothly, for as little as $5.99 a month for a one-year subscription or a $119.99 one-time payment. I’m considering doing the one-shot payment, having bought in for smaller periods until now. I haven’t used it on other devices yet, but would like to put it on my phone; I think they allow you three devices on an account.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I like the idea of some anonymity, but i’m not paranoid about that. Sometimes I play the Japan card or the UK card or whatever, but that’s just for fun. I don’t know of any region-blocked content that I’d want to reach.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Victor</div></div></div>------------------------------<wbr>---------------------<br>PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.<wbr>org</a><br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br><a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>------------------------------<wbr>---------------------<br>
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