this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
729 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

59135 readers
3561 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

PIA and Mullvad should have equal speeds because they both have 10gbps servers and wireguard. Both PIA and Mullvad use ram-only servers exclusively. As for search engine captchas, I never get them with Mullvad. The main issue with PIA is that they were bought by a questionable company that previously developed adware. You can read about that here. Personally, I would never use a privacy tool that is owned by an ad company, even if they claim to have changed. I used them up until the acquisition, then switched and have been extremely happy with Mullvad.

[–] serratur@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PIA is also a US based company

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Just a bad juju acronymn.

Pain in the ass, CIA.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

You're awesome. Thank you! Appreciate the info and response. I'll give Mullvad a throw.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I used PIA for years and dropped them over this. Am now on Mullvad. So far everything’s great.

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As for search engine captchas, I never get them with Mullvad.

That has nothing to do with VPNs, and everything to do with how your browser “leaks” your user behaviour history.

Captchas go through your browser behaviour history and examine the clicks and pages you have gone through, how long you were on each one and how you scrolled through each page. Stuff like that. If that browser behaviour history reaches a minimum threshold of “human-like behaviour”, there is no test to pass. If it doesn’t, or there is no history to go after, you get a test.

[–] Virual@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

The IP address that a request is coming from can absolutely cause captchas to be triggered. If the host is seeing a lot of bot activity from your IP, it'll do that. That and blacklisting is why Mullvad rotates IPs.