[wlesieutre]

I'm using PIA, but they were purchased recently by Kape Technologies so I'm not sure if I'll re-up when my subscription expires. Where I'm at right now is they're probably more trustworthy than Comcast, and less likely to do something like selling my IP address -> personal identity to advertisers.

https://www.hackread.com/private-internet-access-pia-vpn-sol...

They say it doesn't change anything, but with VPN services you really have no way of knowing how trustworthy they are.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-continually-e...

Still, I figure on balance I'm better off having my internet browsing aggregated with all the other traffic coming out of their endpoints versus coming from my modem's IP address.

[fernandotakai]

i signed up for PIA using paypal (i thought i was just setting up my payment source, but they fully created an account) and they sent me an username + password in plain text via email.

i cannot trust a company that does that.

[wlesieutre]

On the one hand, not great. On the other, what can someone do with access to your PIA account? I don't think that gives them any ability to snoop on your traffic, and there's no user data in the account for them to steal.

They could mooch off your access within the 5 device limit, or sign in online and pay your bill?

[shirakawasuna]

Mullvad is better