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"free" & anonymous VPN by sneaky bastards
I just stumbled over this website: www.urban-vpn.com.
They advertise it as a free VPN service, but there is a small thing they forgot to mention in their advertising. And next to their download buttons.
When you read the terms, it isn't free. You are sharing your connection with a third party (p2p) as payment if you install their app.
Have any of you tried it?
And if so, how long did it take before websites went captcha crazy, your public IP address got blacklisted, and the police knocked on your door?
How is the speed?
Is it fast enough to take the risk on a DMCA-free Romanian basement VPS with windows?
Do you know other similar traps?
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I've used it once or twice with their browser add on to access weird locations that might not be included with other VPN services. I wouldn't ever download and install their software though, the add on is bad enough. Speed was good enough for what I wanted, but please use an actual trusted VPN service.
It's not a trap if they make things clear is it, how do you expect them to fund it? nothing is free in life.
Have never seen a more legitimate sounding and semeing service.
That applies for pretty much every single free VPNs. Shit is obviously unsustainable, and they need to make money in some way.
Now I'm curious; is this really that profitable? There's like fuck ton of free VPN clients on Google Play, all of which undoubtably relies on selling data.
I think for 1€/y (VAT included!) @c1vhosting offers / offered a VPN.
I guess they sell residential VPN subscriptions under another name to monetize it.
But if you install their app, you are using somebody else computer and connection as a VPN, and other users are using yours.
In other words, they don't have the same amount of servers as other VPN providers.
If it doesn't backfire, it can add an extra layer of anonymity.
Oh, so they make things clear when they hide important information in their terms.
World has certain amount of non-tech savy and just idiot people. Those people are prey for tech-savy ones. You are not their target audience.
You are supposed to read the TERMS not just click you agree, cant really claim its wrong a scam etc if you never read the terms properly. its perfectly legitimate.
In the country where I live, their advertising is illegal.
I think they have similar laws in most EU countries.
So no, it isn't legitimate.
"Residential Proxies: The “Legal” Botnet That Nobody Talks About"
https://medium.com/spur-intelligence/residential-proxies-the-legal-botnet-that-nobody-talks-about-4470cae7e3c
Sue them. You will win.
Yeah, i'd nether use something like this. You can practically be sure that there is another arm of the company, which is reselling those residential connections pretty much for what they are to the regular clientele for such services. Bad idea. Period.
"The only 100% FREE, 100% fast & 100% anonymous VPN in the world".
Owned and operated by Geosurf (now shutdown due to legal battle with Brightdata)
There are some legitimately free VPN services, I would only trust ones that just give you a WireGuard or OpenVPN config file.
Services like the one you linked make a ton of money selling your connection as a residential proxy. They give you a vpn worth $1/month and charge people like spammers upwards of $10/gb for your home connection as a proxy. It'll ruin your IP reputation too and invite potential legal trouble.
Do you trust for free vpn ?
Only provider I mostly trust would be ProtonVPN due to track record/premium plan funding. Otherwise, no. (except of course urbanvpn ;^))
ProtonMail/ProtonVPN really doesn't have that good of a track record..
Mullvad and IVPN are decent.
VPN is one of those things you never cheap out on if you care about your privacy. If you do, it'll come back to bite you in the ass in the long run
Mullvad is what I've been using for years, and I've heard good things about IVPN too
Well we were talking about free VPNs. Mullvad & Ivpn are Goats, but paid.
I was unaware that ProtonVPN had a free tier so I misread, sorry. For a free tier it indeed looks very good!