@cee @coyote @p @Xalef Luckily, it was only brief and I never used it for anything shady. It was the only free VPN I knew of that ran entirely off of donations (there was also SigaVPN but it was shut down due to lack of donors). I only assume that they didn't collect any data because they never banned me for promoting anarcho-capitalism while using their VPN.
Either way, their VPN service sucks. The server is chosen at random and every single on of them is slow. Their client also lacks a killswitch, so if it disconnects, you risk leaking shit. And I really hate the constant donation reminder it gives you.
If you can't/don't want to pay for a VPN, just use Tor or I2P, preferably the latter since many nodes have been exposed as honeypots lately. I2P supposedly uses a P2P model which remedies this somewhat.
@lethe I don't think the FBI gives a fuck about that. Hell, people download ROMs all the time using they're bare ISP and they never get caught. But I think using a VPN (even a shitty one like RiseUp) for anything P2P is a good idea, otherwise you are exposing your IP address to every other peer on the network and torrenting through Tor isn't recommended.
@p @coyote @Xalef