Best VPN provider (In your opinion)? (Strictly no referral allowed)

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So far the cheapest I have found for monthly billing is LimeVPN. Does anybody have experience with it?
 

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If you share your VPN user id and pwd with a friend, will you be able to find out if he is actually using it or not, i.e. whether he is connected on not?

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IP vanish allows 10 simultaneous connections.

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If you share your VPN user id and pwd with a friend, will you be able to find out if he is actually using it or not, i.e. whether he is connected on not?

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If you are able to find out then wouldn't it defeat the privacy objective?
 

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IP vanish allows 10 simultaneous connections.

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The risk about sharing is you will never know what the other persons are using the VPN for.

Most are using it to download files and watching movies. These activities are quite low in the radar.

Some may use it for terrorism, child pornographic, drugs, etc. These activities may put the account owner in trouble too if caught.

The latter activities are in top radar by regulators and enforcement agencies.
 

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So far I have used 2 vpns.
1) ibVPN
2) safervpn

ibVPN allowed me to play prime video over Roku and saferVPN didn't allow me to play, it keeps giving me the error "This title is not available in your location", no matter what location I choose.

So far ibVPN seems to work for me, it is a Romanian company, its basic plan costs USD 5 monthly billing but offers only single connection.

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The risk about sharing is you will never know what the other persons are using the VPN for.

Most are using it to download files and watching movies. These activities are quite low in the radar.

Some may use it for terrorism, child pornographic, drugs, etc. These activities may put the account owner in trouble too if caught.

The latter activities are in top radar by regulators and enforcement agencies.

That's the risk you have to take by using a commercial VPN service. You have to hope the company does not log and sell your data.

You are probably safer renting a VPS and running a VPN server on there.

I think digital ocean has a VPS for just $5/month.
The downside is you have to manually install a VPN server and you have to manually migrate the vps for it to show up as other country.
 

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Anyone having issues with ExpressVPN and MyRepublic?
I can’t seem to connect to other country’s location on the app..
 

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That's the risk you have to take by using a commercial VPN service. You have to hope the company does not log and sell your data.

You are probably safer renting a VPS and running a VPN server on there.

I think digital ocean has a VPS for just $5/month.
The downside is you have to manually install a VPN server and you have to manually migrate the vps for it to show up as other country.

You are talking about different risks.

I'm highlighting risks in sharing the VPN account with friends.

Risks of using a commercial VPN?

Then you can mitigate this by signing with 1 of the established providers who have been long in the business.

Take Astrill as an example. Their subscription cost is 1 of the most expensive and they have been around for quite a long time.

Compare to a provider who is new and claiming to give you a free VPN service.

Which one is likely to pawn their customers?
 
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If you are able to find out then wouldn't it defeat the privacy objective?

I dont want to know, what he is browsing. I just want to know whether he is using it or not. Is there a way to know how many devices are connected to a VPN out of the 5 allowed?
 

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I dont want to know, what he is browsing. I just want to know whether he is using it or not. Is there a way to know how many devices are connected to a VPN out of the 5 allowed?

u may text him. haha
but i guess some provider might be willing to provide u such VAS if u willing to pay
 

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I dont want to know, what he is browsing. I just want to know whether he is using it or not. Is there a way to know how many devices are connected to a VPN out of the 5 allowed?

It is still infringement of some privacy isn't it? Just my 2 cents.

Anyway if 5 connections used up, I don't think you can connect.
 

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That's the risk you have to take by using a commercial VPN service. You have to hope the company does not log and sell your data.

You are probably safer renting a VPS and running a VPN server on there.

I think digital ocean has a VPS for just $5/month.
The downside is you have to manually install a VPN server and you have to manually migrate the vps for it to show up as other country.

By the way, you think there is 0 risk with the VPS?

It is the same thing. You are relying on some providers.

And you can't be 100% sure of this reliance.
 

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By the way, you think there is 0 risk with the VPS?

It is the same thing. You are relying on some providers.

And you can't be 100% sure of this reliance.

True you can't guarantee you are not being snooped on when using a cloud service. At least for a VPS you get more flexibility when configuring your services
 
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