What VPN do you recommend? + RiseUp Review

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Can you even ask questions on here? I don’t know but I don’t any other better subs to ask in. If you know one, please tell me.

Anyway, I’m pretty poor so I’ve been using the free RiseUp VPN android app for about a year. If I remember correctly, RiseUp claims to be an activist group or company that believes that privacy should be a cost-free basic human right which is why their VPN is free and supposedly doesn’t log.

As for performance, being free, it was expectedly slow, but it did the job, especially at non peak times. But at peak times, some apps weren’t even useable due to long delays as well as hd videos buffering but it may be faster if you have better internet since I have just been mobile data and hotspot. It was, however, very easy to use. You just turn it on once and it will automatically connect when connected to the internet. You also don’t need an account to use the VPN service.

It even has an option for bridging the connection where it will “circumvent VPN filtering” and it surprisingly works. They have also added new features that I just noticed but haven’t yet tried called UDP, Snowflake which will “protect configuration process against censorship”, block IPv6, and enable VPN hotspot. I have had VPN hotspot this whole time though so I don’t know how that’s a new feature but it maybe a result of my phone’s capabilities.

So, overall, it’s great considering that it’s free. Although, I have little frame of reference since, for my whole life, I’ve only ever used free VPNs and even then, the last free VPN that I used was quite some time ago so I can’t say if other free VPNs are now just as or more advanced than Riseup. What I can say is that Riseup is, by far, the most impressive free VPN that I’ve used. It had more features, seemed more dedicated to user satisfaction and ethical, seems genuinely dedicated to privacy as a company, and is much easier to trust than almost any other free VPN and all these reasons are why I only used them for about a year.

And that leads me onto my question. I’m still pretty poor but I’ve recently come on to a bit of money and so I can afford to buy a VPN subscription. I’m only changing because Riseup does not always have the greatest speed and they have not been audited as far as I’m aware. I want a VPN that will privatise and secure my connection whilst being speedy and low maintenance (one where you don’t have to do something like sign in every time that you use it). It also needs to be able to work through an android app and hotspot since that’s how I get all my internet. So what VPN services do you recommend? Any advice will be appreciated.

Edit- I forgot to mention that RiseUp has a bit of a bug that they haven’t fixed yet where, if you use one of the enhancing features I mentioned earlier, it requires you to turn off the VPN before you tweak those settings and then turn it back on again or the app just says that it isn’t receiving internet even though it is. The quickest fix that I found for this bug is force closing the app from the android settings menu and then reopening it. It’s a quick fix but it can be really annoying

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I would go with IVPN or Mallvad. Both are great and do a decent job. I am working on a review of IVPN but I have already done a review of Mallvad. No affiliate links and I was not paid for the review. https://macsources.com/mullvad-vpn-review/

Whatever you decide to go with make sure you do lots of research. There are lots of people pushing VPNs because they can get paid good money via affiliate accounts. This is why we refuse to use affiliates or be paid by the companies. We want our reviews to be honest and not biased at all. If whoever you go with has a free trial test them with https://bash.ws You can see if the service is leaking or is working correctly. It’s been the best way I have found yet to test VPNs. I hope this helps. Have a great day.

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What do you want to achieve? Privacy? VPN doesn’t get you privacy. What it does? It moves your front door to another address in the same or another country. But the big tech companies still know who you are and still can track you (cookies, fingerprinting, device ID, and so on).

At Free VPN’s you are the product. They can track all you do and make money with selling that information to advertisements networks and/or others). So free VPNs are always a No-Go.

VPN reviews websites, are getting sponsored by VPN providers, so they don’t give you a very trustworthy view safe-to-use VPN providers. In my opinion VPN providers who don’t make lots of noise (advertisements online or on TV) are good. Maybe try Mullvad Or AirVPN.

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If you are looking for a good cheap vpn with good privacy you can try Atlas vpn, private vpn, ivacy vpn, surfshark vpn Nord vpn. I seen some really good reviews on YouTube about these vpns just search on YouTube and you will find a lot of information about these vpns

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do you have interested in review my vpn

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I loved riseup

Used it for about 2 years, worked on torrents too which was awesome.

I used to get good speeds, now its less than 10mbps. Not sure whats going on but its unfortunate.

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Aconselho Mullvad por não guardar dados algum dos seus assinantes e pelo otima tecnologia do WireGuard

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Yea IVPN is great for security, not for streaming,but there service is very good there website is full of information on VPN you could spend days on end just reading

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But the big tech companies still know who you are and still can track you (cookies, fingerprinting, device ID, and so on).

Well I’ve gone to some lengths to make sure that isn’t happening.

At Free VPN’s you are the product. They can track all you do and make money with selling that information to advertisements networks and/or others). So free VPNs are always a No-Go.

With most other VPNs, I’d agree but there are a few companies out there that may possibly be genuine. RiseUp claims to be non-profit. I’m not saying that they are non-profit for certain and I’m definitely not telling you to trust them. But I’m also not going to group privacy advocacy organisations in with commercial companies. Yes, some organisations may just be a front but I cannot say that I know that they are.

VPN reviews websites, are getting sponsored by VPN providers, so they don’t give you a very trustworthy view safe-to-use VPN providers.

Yeah. I think I started to pick up on that too. And thanks for the suggestions.

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It’s probably slowed down due to abusers of torrents.

Have you had any idea that VPN providers often get into trouble because of that?

You think you’re safe to download these things, but guess what? Most of the time, the it’s just a honey trap = seeders are often the owners of the content waiting to catch you so they may get money over suing you.

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Late to the game here but RiseUp are trustworthy. I didn’t actually realise they did VPNs until recently - I know them as a (free) website/email host for activist groups in the UK. I believe they grew out of the antiglobalisation movement of the early 2000s, and certainly have political links with anarchist movements internationally. That’ll put a bigger target on their back than most, but the group themselves won’t be selling your data.

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Been using it for years, never had an issue. Speeds are fast, you can use streaming with them, and of course they keep no logs if that’s what you need.

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I’m curious, really I am, no BS. An anti-globalization group should have been pro Brexit, right? Why or why not. And I also swear this will help me understand how and when I use the VPN Riseup so it is relevant to this sub.
I have skin in game I am just trying to understand global uses for vpn, when the VPN development came from, or because of, some movement or policy change that doesn’t affect me.
I think it is wise to care about things that don’t affect me, but affect others right?

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what about netflix now days is it still usable ?

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Is it good for android and hotspot?