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VPN's - Is PrivateInternetAccess worth the $40/year?

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The title basically asks my main question, but I was wondering if this is what I should be purchasing for a VPN.

 

TekSyndicate recommended it 7 months ago in a video, and I just wanted to see how it does now. Should I buy PrivateInternetAccess or should I buy a different VPN? This VPN comes with a SOCKS5 proxy too, which is a nice addon (I guess).

 

Just wanted a second opinion before I spent $40 on something.

 

PURCHASED.

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PIA is an awesome service, i use it everyday, and have used it for about a year and a half now. (They allow 5 connections per account, and i only need one for my router to direct traffic as i see fit, so i let a close friend or two use my PIA account too.)

 

EDIT: Also, i have Google Fiber Gigabit internet and PIA a lot of the time can get 600Mbps+ 

 

EDIT 2, i am using the closest PIA server to me, which happens to be Arizona.

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Hotspot Shield is crap and should die in a fire. (Sorry Linus, but I'm just saying)

 

can you elaborate on that? I'm not saying it's wrong (I don't know), but just randomly claiming it suck without providing any reasons isn't that great...

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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can you elaborate on that? I'm not saying it's wrong (I don't know), but just randomly claiming it suck without providing any reasons isn't that great...

It's REALLY slow and filled with ads, randomly stops working, takes forever to connect, etc.

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The title basically asks my main question, but I was wondering if this is what I should be purchasing for a VPN.

 

TekSyndicate recommended it 7 months ago in a video, and I just wanted to see how it does now. Should I buy PrivateInternetAccess or should I buy a different VPN? This VPN comes with a SOCKS5 proxy too, which is a nice addon (I guess).

 

Just wanted a second opinion before I spent $40 on something.

 

PURCHASED.

just out of curiosity, which vpn solution did you purchase?

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It's REALLY slow and filled with ads, randomly stops working, takes forever to connect, etc.

The ads are only in the free version. I'm not a customer though, so I cannot comment on the crashing and speed issues.

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just out of curiosity, which vpn solution did you purchase?

PIA, although looking back there are a few better options out there.

 

If you're more mainstream about things, then PIA is more than fine. Currently I'm running a few private VPN's though instead. More stable, and not blocked from ddos protection by almost every website/forum run by cloudfare.

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