It is 1.85 dollars a month if one pays for 3 years. I am looking into ways of saving money so I was thinking into switching. However, I am a bit worried since 3 years ago I did the same with Nord VPN and it is sooo buggy. It rarely ever works for me. I had to switch to ProtonVPN after paying for 3 years for Nord 💀.

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    Mullvad has been my soft recommendation. Works well and is secure. Atlas VPN is based out of the US so if that is a potential concern for you…

    They have been audited however which is always good. https://atlasvpn.com/blog/atlas-vpn-completes-its-first-independent-security-audit-by-versprite

    Another small thing to consider is the (RAM Only Servers) So all of their data is hosted on RAM… There are a few providers but this is a newer thing https://www.privacyaffairs.com/ram-only-vpn/

    This resource here is decent

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijfqfLrJWLUVBfJZ_YalVpstWsjw-JGzkvMd6u2jqEk/edit#gid=231869418

    Overall? Probably fine but just in general if you are from the US remember that this is a US company subject to US police searches on any of their offices or datacenters.

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    I use Nord personally. I’ve not had any real problems with it. But I just use it on my headless Linux server to download media for me, rarely anything more sensitive than that. (For real privacy, you need way more than just a VPN, and I can’t be bothered)

    I like that it’s based out of Panama, and works/worked with Netflix (haven’t done that for a while). I also see a lot of FUD against it online that mostly seems baseless to me. That’s a positive in my books, as it might mean that someone has an interest in directing people away from it.

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      I havent been able to get nord to work with netflix for a while now.

      Sure, I’m not immediately kicked from the site, but when im on a vpn, it only serves netflix originals or other stuff that they fully own the rights to, which is available without a vpn connection anyway.

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        Yeah, I haven’t done it for a good long while (mostly because it’s a pain to set up). I’m not that surprised it doesn’t work anymore. Netflix has been cracking down.