I want to install a VPN client on my L5 and use a VPN provider, best would be outside of the Fortress EU (background is that the EU and German authorities do not allow read or watch certain sources).
Any recommendation for both?
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There have been a couple of more detailed comparisons of VPNs over the years (besides the more commercial and superficial ones). No VPN is perfect, it seems. Take a look at the data available on the G/docs (unfortunate, I agree) table in this thread and use what criteria best suits your needs: https://discuss.whatever.social/r/VPN/comments/m736zt/vpn_comparison_table/ [seems to have been updated this year]. Has anyone found better data/comparison/source?
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This might be useful: VPN Providers & Corporate Relationships
According to AirVPN, there are now only three independent VPN providers (one of which is AirVPN); all the rest have been sucked up and consolidated by mega-companies.
As for clients, you may not need one; you may be able to use the Advanced Network Connections app to set up the VPN connection.
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The map (Kumu) seems to show several separate VPNs (as well as several clusters), so I don’t see where the “only 3” comes from (noting also that there are a few clusters that are not mega-corporations but rather several services they have). Very good info and visualization still.
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Yes, I was quoting a recent AirVPN staff comment re the “only 3,” and AirVPN is not the source of that chart, which was either created or merely referenced (I don’t recall which) by a random user, so there may be mistakes or omissions. Plus, it’s also a bit dated now. [EDIT: And in fact, I don’t know when the last edit to that chart occurred.]
If I had to guess to which 3 providers AirVPN was referring, I would go with:
- AirVPN
- Mullvad
- Proton
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Just for completeness, for anyone looking info on getting a VPN, also be aware of at least these risks: 10 VPN scams to look out for in 2024 - Surfshark
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How do they implement that? DNS poisoning? (as happens here)
If DNS poisoning then you don’t need a VPN, you just need a correctly working DNS server.
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At the moment this side https://freedert.online/ is working, until the big providers in DE disable it in DNS again and RT publishes a new DNS name. It’s like a cat-and-mouse-game. But, I faced also situations on IP level blocking, not even having the correct IP addr in /etc/hosts helped. Do you know a “correctly working DNS server”?
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I run my own.
As you say, running your own DNS server won’t help with IP level blocking (blackholing).
Maybe RT should stop changing the name. That would at least make any DNS workaround on your side permanent.
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