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Which VPN do you use and why?
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2026
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Ivpn: canary, audited, anonymous accounts purchasable with crypto or cash, no performance issues, no logs (allegedly), open source protocols and clients.
I really like their blatant honesty in "Do you really need a VPN?"
Fundamentally, the only use case of a VPN is if you trust them with your traffic more than your ISP. Since I've had multiple ISPs that serve up adds instead of 404s and will threaten you for using p2p protocols it's easy to trust a VPN more. As best I can tell Ivpn is just a couple of security peeps running a VPN service cause they can--could they be corrupted or a honey pot? Yeah, but the anonymous accounts help mitigate that risk, and the reality is that even an anonymous account can be tied back to your IP. So don't do anything illegal illegal on just a VPN and it'll prolly be fine.
And they're not advertised through everyone with a platform.
Considering what my ISP is I think I'd trust any vpn with a FOSS client over them...
Isn't IVPN based in Gibraltar? 🤷♂️
It is. Which I suppose is a consideration, but being an autonomous territory they don't have retention legislation yet. As the EU, and GB along with them (and to be honest, the rest of the developed world) tends toward mandating logs and shit that arithmetic may change. They aren't a part of a surveillance sharing network today, and since I'm personally only using a VPN for p2p stuff this isn't really a consideration for me personally.