On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:28:58 -0700 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:
>My wife is interested in VPNs, but she runs Win7. Is there a VPN that >runs on both Win7 and Linux (Ubuntu based)? There are a ton of VPN services available. Most will run on any OS, but few have an application to configure their service, and of those that do, even fewer have a Linux app. Private Internet Access (PIA) and Mullvad are two that do. I started with PIA and later switched to Mullvad. Mullvad provides a .deb package and PIA has a script, and both were just a couple of clicks to install. Another thing to consider is that running a VPN will kick your bandwidth in the tush. My gigabit fiber connection gives me about 800Mb/s normally, and with PIA it dropped to about 250, and with Mullvad to about 300-350. I should add that browsers report your location to web sites. Once I tried to open safeway.com and was greeted with 'access denied" because I was connecting via a Mullvad server in Stockholm. Of course, a big outfit like Safeway has to be extra careful, because we all know that everyone in Sweden is a terrorist. When I'm sitting at my desk my main laptop computer has the VPN, but I have a desktop computer right next to it, and I deliberately did not install the VPN on it. If I have an urgent need to view safeway.com I can swivel my chair to the desktop. You should also be aware that there are many VPN services just for web browsers, and many of them are free. They are available as extensions. Of course, they give you privacy and protection only for browser activity. Plus, if you use more than one browser you'd need to add the extension to all of them. >Is it worth the effort? Depends on how much you value you privacy.
