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Proton VPN is awesome alternative. The company behind it is known for privacy, and there is no data cap too for the free tier plan...
If you do not pay for the service (or pay too little in terms of profitable business) - you yourself are the "service", that which is monetized by collecting and selling your data.
@Mohak
Proton VPN will not be of any use if one is in a place like Russia, or China, or Iran. You know. I mean, there are a couple of ways to download the installer, but you won't be able to connect to any of the VPN servers as such a connection will be blocked by your ISP. The same applies to Windscribe and all the other popular options that everyone knows about.
Unlocator worked for me. Sadly, they only offer a two-week trial. Then it's either pay up, or create another temporary account.
@NikoB
Perhaps this will come as a surprise to some, but most people on this planet only have enough money to buy food and other essential things like pants and shirts. Parting with five or ten US dollars per month to get a premium VPN isn't an option for them. I don't think it's an option for me, either. I am a citizen of a comparatively well-off country, mind you.
Quote from: Jace Lightwood on March 20, 2023, 13:01:10@Mohak
Proton VPN will not be of any use if one is in a place like Russia, or China, or Iran. You know. I mean, there are a couple of ways to download the installer, but you won't be able to connect to any of the VPN servers as such a connection will be blocked by your ISP. The same applies to Windscribe and all the other popular options that everyone knows about.
Unlocator worked for me. Sadly, they only offer a two-week trial. Then it's either pay up, or create another temporary account.
@NikoB
Perhaps this will come as a surprise to some, but most people on this planet only have enough money to buy food and other essential things like pants and shirts. Parting with five or ten US dollars per month to get a premium VPN isn't an option for them. I don't think it's an option for me, either. I am a citizen of a comparatively well-off country, mind you.
Thanks for the hint!
Use Tor. It free. It work anywhere.
All paid and high-speed VPNs require payment, which is often not possible from totalitarian countries.
Cryptocurrency just helps here - but you still need to be able to get it in such countries without risks (which is almost unrealistic). Mining is not an option. But usually legal VPNs do not accept cryptocurrency payments and do not independently convert it into the fiat they need, and all other options can simply be blocked. And illegal ones are always increased risks that you will simply be thrown.
Everything works easily when you use a VPN in a relatively still free country and where you have the ability to pay bills abroad with conventional banking methods, and everything changes dramatically if almost all payment methods abroad with a minimum (adequate) commission and risks are lost, except for cryptocurrency.
In Iran/Russia, this has already been experienced by the entire "middle class" by their local standards. Let's see if Uncle Sam has the courage to pull off the same trick with China or they quietly merge. I bet that the United States will not pull such an operation.
And the general trend towards censorship on the Internet is already evident even in the US / EU, along with the radicalization of societies.
The world is quickly divided into loyal subjects (slaves - in fact or mental) and strangers, if they have a different point of view, different from the officially approved, powerful stratum and the part of the population supporting them...