My VPN package is going up - Looking for Recommendations - Advice.

[AlwaysThere]

6 minutes ago, KhunHeineken said:

In a time of high inflation, high rents, and high wages, they have increased the price by $20.99USD per year.  This works out to be an increase of $1.75USD per month. 

 

$1.75USD is 60 baht a month, which is less then one small beer in a bar, all over Thailand, per month.

 

I have always said, you get what you pay for with VPN's, and not all VPN's are made equally. 

 

If you are familiar with the PIA user interface, and billing system, and the company has served you well in the past, you might reconsider and just pay the extra money. 

 

Yes, there are cheaper VPN's on the market, but when you do some research, you will find they are cheap for a reason. 

 

...or he could just do what was suggested earlier; letting it lapse and awaiting a new offer or simple opening a new account with the same company for less. It pays to take note of what was written before.

[KhunHeineken]

9 minutes ago, AlwaysThere said:

 

...or he could just do what was suggested earlier; letting it lapse and awaiting a new offer or simple opening a new account with the same company for less. It pays to take note of what was written before.

That means he would be without the use of a VPN UNTIL and IF the company ever makes a new offer, and should he decide to use a new email address to make a new account, how will he pay? 

 

They are not that stupid that they do not cross reference payment details.  I suppose he could use his spouse's card, or a friend or family's card, maybe even anonymous crypto, but what a tangled web one would weave in order to save a lousy 60 baht a month. 

 

It pays to look at the bigger picture. 

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

On 11/21/2024 at 6:50 PM, john donson said:

are AN members spies or something that they need this, or is this to enable the hub of pron and other sites that are 'blocked'

 

They are useful for the "hub of porn" and for other geo-blocked sites.  There is no such thing as true privacy but then again the average VPN user isn't an international criminal or terrorist so they don't have much to worry about.  Most if not all VPN services are likely either backed by the CIA or some other intelligence service or otherwise knowingly or unknowingly have their infrastructure totally compromised by intelligence services or cave in to pressure from them.  So in other words if any Aseannow members are pedos and think a VPN is protecting them they are living on borrowed time.

 

On 11/21/2024 at 7:19 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

Opera browser has a free VPN service.

 

The main downside is that it only provides a VPN for the browser itself and not any other applications that may access the internet.

 

And you can't specify the country of the exit node in the free version.

[AlwaysThere]

15 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

That means he would be without the use of a VPN UNTIL and IF the company ever makes a new offer, and should he decide to use a new email address to make a new account, how will he pay? 

 

They are not that stupid that they do not cross reference payment details.  I suppose he could use his spouse's card, or a friend or family's card, maybe even anonymous crypto, but what a tangled web one would weave in order to save a lousy 60 baht a month. 

 

It pays to look at the bigger picture. 

 

Yes, you should.

Do you think there is any rule against having multiple accounts with the same company? 😊 Maybe you can show us evidence of that.

If the original poster wants to save that US$10 or US$20, what's it to you? If you cannot help, then why are you on this thread? To mock them?

Edited 2 hours ago by AlwaysThere