Seems its not a very popular VPN, but I might as well put the PSA out for its free users.
While Windscribe and Hide.me will give you free VPN allowance every month, Zoog does so for a few months, then stops. But unlike Windscribe, they’re not straightforward about it. They give you fake errors. You can actually read the log, and it’ll tell you “error”:false and the time your “free” plan expired.
When you try to create an account round it, Windscribe at least tells you to log out of it and back into your main one. Zoog has the audacity to keep you hanging, troubleshooting and contacting them over a non-existent issue. Just ask for money at the end of the trial, rather than playing games with potential customers.
I made a new account because they didn’t respond to messages from my old one. Glad I got to the bottom of it, and I’m now looking for alternatives. I test these VPNs to see which ones are worth buying, and Zoog has lost the goodwill that Windscribe and Hide.me have.
Wasn’t Nord hacked 2 years ago? Too much on sponsorships and not enough on security. And Pure is audited by KPMG, which is one of the big 4 auditors, so untrustworthy.
I’d take Windscribe and Hide.me because they didn’t jerk me around like Zoog, but everyone else recommends Mullvad, so it’s strange to see anyone recommending Nord, Pure and Fastest VPN.
Thanks for handling that spammer, and for your guide. It should be stickied in this sub. I disabled UPnP in qBittorrent, and had “network interface” set to whichever VPN I was using, as it was advised that it stops leaks. Regarding port forwarding, is that something I do in “optional ip address to bind to” in [advanced], or “port used for incoming connections” in [connection].
For the former, when I run a VPN, a new IP is introduced under “all/ipv4/6 addresses”. Is that the IP I bind to? Seems to go away every time I close the VPN, requiring rebinding unless I start it before qBittorrent. So simply opening it to check on some files would require a reset. Does “port used for…” matter, and does mac spoofing help with privacy in any way?
“port used for incoming connections” in [connection].
This port must match what your VPN provider gives you for an open port. I.e. if there’s configuration on the website, copy website’s port to qBittorrent setting
a new IP is introduced under “all/ipv4/6 addresses”.
No, only select the interface above. Let it automatically handle individual IPs. That means if the VPN’s internal IP changes, qB will just lookup available IPs for this network interface. You’d only need to select an IP in addition to that if you had many IPs on one interface and only wanted to use one IP on it.
Forgot about the MAC: so far all attacks have been carried out by *SA through the browser with javascript, where the MAC helped them in court. Copyright trolls aren’t getting MACs in any way (yet). However OpenVPN is quite talkative… but no, nothing’s getting beyond your VPN provider.