I’m a total noob about VPNs, but I’d like to beat my service provider’s data throttling. I need to do a lot of downloading and uploading of large files, and am running into my deadline, but I don’t have any disposable income to put into a paid VPN. Do Y’all have suggestions?

For people telling me to pay for one; if I had the money I would have just done that and wouldn’t have needed to ask. But as it stands, I can barely make enough money to feed myself, it’s pretty hard to justify the cost of a decent VPN (even if it seems cheap to you). I don’t really care about privacy or companies selling my data, I just want to upload what needs to be uploaded in a timely manner, as it’s already taken three days of shit internet, and it’s still 22% done.

  • EXiLExJD@lemmy.ml
    24·
    4 years ago

    I recommend paying for a decent VPN - If the product is free it means YOU are the product. A VPN isn’t that expensive for a yearly subscription (I’m paying $40US a year), and you can even pay monthly. I use PIA which is only ~$2.70 a month and most VPN’s are under $5 a month.

      • Seabourne_Plays@lemmy.mlOP
        41·
        4 years ago

        I’m from the US, but I’ve worked in freelance for most of my adult career - and have been out of work since shortly before the pandemic hit, my income is pitiful and far below minimum wage. I simply can’t afford $5 a month, unless I start surviving on bread and water alone.

      • Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
        21·
        4 years ago

        First class citizen* is more generic for every country.

        You could find people in poor countries saying they can afford it and generalize that other can too (being a lie but destroying your point) and similar in rich countries with poor people.