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   From: arlen@arlen.com   
      
   On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:44:58 -0500, nospam wrote:   
      
   > like everything, some vpns are good and others are bad. some are in the   
   > middle. different vpn services prioritize different things. no vpn is   
   > best for everyone or in every situation. many people use more than one,   
   > depending on the situation.   
      
   To that end, the reader interesting in choosing among the various public   
   VPN service providers may be interested in this response to Mike Easter on   
   a related thread just moments ago...   
      
    From Mike Easter...   
    > I think you are referring to the website https://thatoneprivacysite.net/   
      
   Hi Mike,   
      
   THANK YOU for digging up that cite, as I had forgotten it, but the moment I   
   saw the green, red, yellow tables, I recognized it as the very helpful site   
   you had proposed when we last discussed how to _compare_ VPN services.   
       
      
   That site is very useful for experts to _pick_ among the various offerings!   
   o Let's always keep in mind that a "beginner" is different from an "expert".   
   o And that rolling your own is different from pointing to a public service.   
      
   This thread is clearly for beginners to _point_ to existing VPN services.   
      
   While I consider myself _still_ a beginner, I have been using VPN for a few   
   years now, on all the common consumer platforms, where my advice for a   
   beginner (which the OP very much appears to be) would be different than my   
   advice for an expert.   
      
   As you're aware, every day my wget scripts pull down off the net thousands   
   of free openvpn configuration files, each of which gives me an IP address   
   from any of hundreds of countries and thousands of locations (all of which   
   is geolocated for me in the scripts that you helped, long ago, us write   
   together on the Linux newsgroups, mostly from Marek Novotny, bless his   
   heart).   
      
   Let's keep in mind, for this thread, we're dealing with a beginner question.   
      
   For a beginner, I'd suggest a _specific_ protocol, & specifically openvpn.   
   o For an expert, they can _pick_ whatever protocol fits their needs best.   
      
   For a beginner, I'd suggest a _specific_ free public service.   
   o An expert can _pick_ a more reliable paid service to fit their needs.   
      
   My point of view is that, with our advice, a beginner can be up and running   
   on VPN in less time than it took to write this up - where - after they   
   "play around" a bit on VPN, they'll get their feet wet on the basics.   
      
   After that, they can spend the rest of their life choosing among the huge   
   number of variables nicely outlined in that reference you kindly unearthed:   
   o Detailed VPN Comparison Chart   
       
      
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