How to find a trustworthy VPN service

Define &#x27;trustworthy&#x27;. Protonmail are now offering ProtonVPN free tier and paid subscriptions for higher speeds. Under Swiss law they are now required to store logs.<p>The only trustworthy solution is your own OpenVPN server on some cloud provider (not difficult to setup). Even then it is debatable whether it would remain private long. Probably draw attention if anything but you won&#x27;t get your logs sold to Target.<p>It&#x27;s hilarious how many &#x27;VPN providers&#x27; don&#x27;t even encrypt the traffic.

I&#x27;ve been pretty impressed with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo</a> so far.

This article makes Mysterium Network&#x27;s upcoming decentralized,zero-knowledge, trustless VPN service more interesting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mysterium.network&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mysterium.network&#x2F;</a>

VPNs are for privacy, not anonymity. Confuse the two are your own peril - the Grugq<p>The only trustworthy VPN service is one that you operate yourself. There are plenty of Github projects that will deploy a personal VPN for you:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jlund&#x2F;streisand" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jlund&#x2F;streisand</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trailofbits&#x2F;algo</a>

I&#x27;m not super knowledgeable in this field, so maybe somebody can set me straight regarding VPNs.<p>I have always assumed that VPN services like PIA, AirVPN, etc. are useful for, among other things:<p>1. To make the content you are viewing private from your ISP, employer, public WiFi, etc.<p>2. To make it more difficult for some remote host&#x2F;website&#x2F;actor to link your activity on their site with you.<p>Isn&#x27;t point (2) negated if you host your own VPN on AWS? In the sense that if you&#x27;re in a country with a nefarious government, wouldn&#x27;t it be easier for them to subpoena AWS than to get info from some VPN service over in ________ country that doesn&#x27;t store logs, and has a million other users using the same IP?<p>An example situation might be the RIAA notices that an IP is downloading Janet Jackson MP3s, and all they need to do is subpoena AWS if you&#x27;re hosting your own VPN which has a unique IP, versus tracking down some Caribbean company who has given you an IP that&#x27;s shared among thousands of users and has a public reputation for trustworthiness to hold?

This creates an Auto closing SSH Tunnel (Tunnel will close if Chrome exits) to a remote ssh server and redirect to localhost on port 7070 and launch Chrome Portable using local port 7070 as socks 5 proxy<p>The following command is for cygwin on Windows.Can be customised for Mac OS or Linux<p>ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -C -f -q -D 7070 username@servername sleep 10 ; &quot;&#x2F;cygdrive&#x2F;c&#x2F;PortableApps&#x2F;GoogleChromePortable&#x2F;GoogleChromePortable.exe&quot; --proxy-server=&quot;socks5:&#x2F;&#x2F;localhost:7070&quot; &amp;

Whenever I see any article discussing which is the best VPN provider it&#x27;s usually written by someone who is benefiting from the recommendation of a particular company.<p>This article is no different

There&#x27;s a pretty good (and, in contrast to most such lists, independent from any provider) comparison of VPN services here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thatoneprivacysite.net&#x2F;vpn-comparison-chart&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thatoneprivacysite.net&#x2F;vpn-comparison-chart&#x2F;</a>

I currently use cryptostorm. It&#x27;s &quot;more difficult&quot; to use than most, but it seems trust worthy. ProtoVPN, their service, looks interesting. Perhaps worth checking out, but it would need a solid flock of regions in order for me to consider it.

My current solution: ssh -v -C -D 1080 {server_i_own}, then set application proxy settings to localhost:1080.<p>(I’m aware this isn’t <i>really</i> the same as a VPN, but for my current purposes it’s Good Enough.)

The only use case I know of for a vpn service is to hide illegal torrenting from your isp. Why else do people route all of their traffic to a third party?