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There are only three good ones, in no particular order:
Any other VPN used is a mistake.
Centralization and monoculture is a mistake.
I've used AirVPN for over a year now. No complaints. Mullvad stopped port forwarding so had to swap. Recently moved email to proton so might move VPN over soon too.
There's a reason why I didn't mention Air instead of those three I named:
So which one of these criterias are not met by AirVPN?
It isn't Free Software from what I took a look at.
What isn't free software..?
I think you should make it clear if you are talking about VPN services or client-side apps here. If they provide normal standard protocols like Wireguard and OpenVPN, they can be used without having to install any provider-specific apps.
Regardless of provider it's generally preferred to use third-party software to connect. VPN providers that don't even have their own apps don't qualify as good for you either?
Demanding the whole stack be FLOSS is a bit silly in this context. None of the ones you mentioned open-source most of their backend systems either AFAIK.
I think you should do your homework better before you speak so widely and absolutely dismissively with such claim of authority. It is not helpful.
I think it’s good idea to not put all your eggs in one basket, so having a different vpn provider from your email would be safer. Up to you though.
This is something else that crossed my mind. Not like the $20 a year or whatever is going to break my bank paying separately....
AzireVPN is the best in my opinion
I've never heard about it. I just took a look, and it's from the Malwarebytes guys. My issue with it is that it's proprietary, save for a lone BASH script that happened to be under GPL-2.0, which allows for tivoization.
They're Swedish, but the company was bought by Malwarebytes later on
What piece of software are you talking about ?
Azire in particular.
Azire what? They're a Wireguard VPN provider with a web portal.
I guess same confusion as here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/23696262
You give the impression that you are talking about the VPNs when you are actually talking about smartphone apps..?
It's also worth noting that Proton is the only one with port forwarding.