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Private Internet Access (PIA) doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article nor HN posts. I think that must be good then. I've been a happy PIA customer for ab
by novaleaf 7y ago
Private Internet Access (PIA) doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article nor HN posts.
I think that must be good then. I've been a happy PIA customer for about 5 years. They probably arn't the fastest (I get aprox 3.5mbit/sec on them) but so far none of the mud slung against them sticks.
There's a lot of shady shit in the VPN industry, so glad they are above it.
- typenil 7y agoI used PIA for a long time, but at some point it seemed like every single site I visited triggered that Cloudflare protection page that forces you to fill out Google Recaptcha before proceeding. Hopefully that's not the case now.
- hellofunk 7y agoI haven't seen a Cloudflare page in ages and I use them often. I honestly cannot recall the last time when browsing the web I saw a Cloudflare page, with any ISP or VPN.
- novaleaf 7y agoi also never see cloudflare problems. however some sites refuse to do business with you if you are on a vpn (craigslist, BoA, etc) probably due to abuse from the same IP
- duskwuff 7y ago> at some point it seemed like every single site I visited triggered that Cloudflare protection page that forces you to fill out Google Recaptcha before proceeding That's kind of par for the course on a public VPN -- your traffic is being aggregated with a lot of other users, some of whom will be behaving in unusual ways.
- hellofunk 7y agoI get exactly double the bandwidth with them that you do, so I suspect there are other factors.
- novaleaf 7y agomight be my location. i'm using the seattle and sometimes vancouver nodes. Without PIA I get about 10mbit.
- AsyncAwait 7y agoI also use them, I really like that they seem to semi-regularly donate to free software. Hope they keep it up.