*** VPN Thread ***

Stumble Bum said:
Paid £77.47 yesterday for 2 years of NordVPN
Topcashback is already tracking the amount of £52.31
Just waiting until I can withdraw.

Total cost = £25.16 for 2 years.
£1.05 per month.
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Thinking of doing the same, so good to know it tracks quickly.

I was also wondering if its worth going for the plus package, probably don't need the extras but as it comes with a £20 Amazon voucher that makes it almost cost no extra, though I realise TCB is calculated based on the basic package price.

Another thing to mention for anyone looking to do this, if you're a TCB plus member you can currently get 105% cashback rather than 85%, I've never bothered with their plus membership, but for the sake of the £5 annual charge its probably worth it.
 
I’ve been with a few different VPNs, including Mullvad.


Mullvad has been the quickest for me, but found that a lot of websites blocked access, and they also don’t allow port forwarding any longer for P2P.



Nord was so up and down on speeds.



Binned proton but can’t remember why.


Air VPN was complicated to set up properly for port forwarding and the website is terrible.




I’ve been using PIA again and have found it fine for my needs, but truth is I don’t think I’d trust anyone other than Mullvad to be a truly privacy-focused option.

PIA does flag every single captcha/“human checker” though so I don’t use it for regular browsing unless out and about. Some websites block it altogether
 
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Stumble Bum said:
Paid £77.47 yesterday for 2 years of NordVPN
Topcashback is already tracking the amount of £52.31
Just waiting until I can withdraw.

Total cost = £25.16 for 2 years.
£1.05 per month.
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i done this too, also tracked and pending.
probably wouldnt have gone with nord otherwise but cant go wrong at that price.

ideally wanted something more light on resources but i dont run it all the time so its good.
 
MrRockliffe said:
...truth is I don’t think I’d trust anyone other than Mullvad to be a truly privacy-focused option.
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They are few and far between. You can trust AzireVPN, who still port forward and are very much a Mullvad II (Swedish, blind operator mode, established). IVPN is more expensive and also trustworthy, but they stopped their port forwarding around the the time Mullvad did. OVPN used to be another tier I option but these days they are owned by a rather questionable overarching third party, as are so many VPN companies.

If it's just for streaming rather than torrenting Linux ISOs, PrivadoVPN and IPVanish are both relatively unknown names but are actually just frontends to the Tier I backhaul network for the world's largest Usenet provider Omicron/Eweka/Newshosting. Very fast network, cheap, and does the job.
 
Omicron are shall we say less than transparent about many things, and - at best - have some very sharp business practices. I barely trust them with news, if they follow the same model on the VPN side, avoid any non Omicron owned reseller as they will likely shaft them as soon as they think they can make more selling direct.
 
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Got free access to privadovpn with my subscription to my usenet account, had completely forgot about it.

Free for another 12 months, only to be used on one TV in my house, so fired upo an old asus router with wrt software on it, changed a few settings, dropped in the openvpn profile and connected to amsterdam with more than enough speed to do what I want it to do..

ooking at the main page, it's only £1.11 a month on a 27 month deal..
 
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Stumble Bum said:
Paid £77.47 yesterday for 2 years of NordVPN
Topcashback is already tracking the amount of £52.31
Just waiting until I can withdraw.

Total cost = £25.16 for 2 years.
£1.05 per month.
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Boo. Mine hasn't tracked and it was a few days ago I did it. When I did my Surfshark one earlier in the month that tracked within an hour so not sure what happened.

Will give it a few more days.
 
mark43 said:
Thinking of doing the same, so good to know it tracks quickly.

I was also wondering if its worth going for the plus package, probably don't need the extras but as it comes with a £20 Amazon voucher that makes it almost cost no extra, though I realise TCB is calculated based on the basic package price.

Another thing to mention for anyone looking to do this, if you're a TCB plus member you can currently get 105% cashback rather than 85%, I've never bothered with their plus membership, but for the sake of the £5 annual charge its probably worth it.
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Didn't work for me, purchased 5 days ago and nothing showing. Would there be anything acknowledging transaction used TCB, other than the TCB account? No guarantee I didn't mess it up :p
 
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firstborn said:
Didn't work for me, purchased 5 days ago and nothing showing. Would there be anything acknowledging transaction used TCB, other than the TCB account? No guarantee I didn't mess it up :p
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You should be able to submit a manual claim. I've not done it for a while but I think it usually lists times they can see you clicked through to the retailer and you select that. They'll probably want an order number and stuff like that. I've done a few manual claims in the past and although it's taken ages they've been successful.
 
Had NordVPN for the last few years. Dont really use it unless I'm travelling an want to watch the F1. Currently in Spain and remembered I've never managed to get (NowTV etc) to work in spain as they know the ip's from VPN's

That was until today.... Just added the dedicated ip add on.. Works perfect now
 
For those that use Nord like me on their devices and mobiles, do you split tunnel your telephony to ensure VoWiFi's / VoIP traffic (like WhatsApp calls) is excluded from the tunnel? You can use OpenVPN UDP instead, but I prefer to stick with NordLynx.

Therefore to avoid any issues / anomalies with sending voice down the VPN, I exclude the following bits:

Carrier location access
Carrier Provisioning Service
Carrier Services
Carrier Settings
con.android.imsserviceentitlement
com.mediatek.carrierexpress
Phone
Phone calls
Phone services

There may be others but these are the main ones I can find. Some are phone specific. But if you ask AI it'll give you a good list to start with.
 
Ooh, glad I found this thread. Never really bothered but with the new ligislation I think it's finally time. I'll have a good reaad through but the Nord offer with topcash looks very enticing.
 
As I have basically just been asked this question in person by someone, if your only concern is bypassing the stupid proof of age legislation on whatever site you're visiting (I really didn't want to ask any additional questions about where said person was visiting), just get the free Windscribe tier, a few hoops to jump through - a poor choice of phrase? - and you have 10GB of free VPN every month for your 'needs'. How we got to this stage as a country is frankly embarrassing, but finally this may make people question why we have such utterly pointless and dumb laws passed by people who have no grasp of what they are doing.
 
Might be off topic, but reminds me of a conversation I had with my sister in law. Her sons at the time were 15 and 17, and their mates were caught drinking at the beach (they live in Oz). She went mental, and tried to impose all sorts of restrictions on her sons to stop them from joining in. I said to her, look I've been a teenage boy. If a teenager wants to drink, they'll drink. If a parent or any other authority says no, it'll make them want to drink even more. She looked at me weirdly like I have two heads, probably how the government would look at me if I said the same to them.
 
What country is the best to pretend to be in for "browsing"?

Iceland seemed to work, also Algeria but the website had Arabic text in places which I dared not click, probably get a camel or something.
 
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