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From personal experience, HMA absolutely does not care about actual user privacy. They log events tied to your actual IP address, keep the logs indefinitely, an

From personal experience, HMA absolutely does not care about actual user privacy. They log events tied to your actual IP address, keep the logs indefinitely, and are perfectly happy to hand those logs over to other parties. This is pretty much the exact opposite of what a consumer VPN should do and I recommend everyone stay away from them. I’m now using PIA and have had mostly good experiences aside from the occasional server slowdown require a reconnect elsewhere.

JamieJones 8y ago
Totally agree.. PIA's speed is one of the worst! However... PIA has another problem. Test the setup file with VirusTotal and let me know what you will find :) Trust me, it's something you didn't want to know. How long have you used it?
- mdorazio 8y ago
  You’re probably referring to this [1]. I’ve checked all the runtimes and never found any actual malware. Started using it years ago when I was traveling internationally and needed to get around various region blocks and restrictions. [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/25268/so-i-scanned-pia-manager-exe-with-virustotal-and-it-came-up-with-12-viruses https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/25268...
  - JamieJones 8y ago
    Yes, this one. the "false-positive". I was a subscriber as well. For about 6 months. Even though it's incredibly cheap, I changed it due to a combination of all small defects like speed, 5 eyes location, engine problem and lack of double-hop. Although the last one would probably make the speed two times worse. It also depends on how often you use it. If you say traveling, I guess it's not switched ON 24/7 , so the small things won't bother you as much.
  - JamieJones 8y ago
    One interesting article for you to read. He is one of the PIAs executives: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-15/former-bitcoin-baron-mark-karpeles-gets-suspended-jail-term https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-15/former-bi...

JamieJones 8y ago

Totally agree.. PIA's speed is one of the worst! However... PIA has another problem. Test the setup file with VirusTotal and let me know what you will find :) Trust me, it's something you didn't want to know. How long have you used it?

mdorazio 8y ago
You’re probably referring to this [1]. I’ve checked all the runtimes and never found any actual malware. Started using it years ago when I was traveling internationally and needed to get around various region blocks and restrictions. [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/25268/so-i-scanned-pia-manager-exe-with-virustotal-and-it-came-up-with-12-viruses https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/25268...
- JamieJones 8y ago
  Yes, this one. the "false-positive". I was a subscriber as well. For about 6 months. Even though it's incredibly cheap, I changed it due to a combination of all small defects like speed, 5 eyes location, engine problem and lack of double-hop. Although the last one would probably make the speed two times worse. It also depends on how often you use it. If you say traveling, I guess it's not switched ON 24/7 , so the small things won't bother you as much.
- JamieJones 8y ago
  One interesting article for you to read. He is one of the PIAs executives: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-15/former-bitcoin-baron-mark-karpeles-gets-suspended-jail-term https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-15/former-bi...