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Private Internet Access (PIA) doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article nor HN posts.

I think that must be good then. I've been a happy PIA customer for about 5 years. They probably arn't the fastest (I get aprox 3.5mbit/sec on them) but so far none of the mud slung against them sticks.

There's a lot of shady shit in the VPN industry, so glad they are above it.




I used PIA for a long time, but at some point it seemed like every single site I visited triggered that Cloudflare protection page that forces you to fill out Google Recaptcha before proceeding.

Hopefully that's not the case now.


I haven't seen a Cloudflare page in ages and I use them often. I honestly cannot recall the last time when browsing the web I saw a Cloudflare page, with any ISP or VPN.


i also never see cloudflare problems.

however some sites refuse to do business with you if you are on a vpn (craigslist, BoA, etc) probably due to abuse from the same IP


> at some point it seemed like every single site I visited triggered that Cloudflare protection page that forces you to fill out Google Recaptcha before proceeding

That's kind of par for the course on a public VPN -- your traffic is being aggregated with a lot of other users, some of whom will be behaving in unusual ways.


I also use them, I really like that they seem to semi-regularly donate to free software. Hope they keep it up.


I get exactly double the bandwidth with them that you do, so I suspect there are other factors.


might be my location. i'm using the seattle and sometimes vancouver nodes. Without PIA I get about 10mbit.




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