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.

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    https://backplanedns.org OpenVPN based ones and the Riseup one.

    Even if you cannot maintain yourself giving money in a continues sense. I recommend you to donate whenever you can. Even if you must avoid getting sweets or a pizza for a day for it.

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        You can use both on both platforms too. I mean, OpenVPN ones on GNU/Linux and Riseup on MS Windows.

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      This is one of few answers that’s actually helpful, thank you.

      I couldn’t quite understand the site you provided though, I couldn’t find a download link. That could just be me being blind, I’ve decided to go with Windscribe because I’ve used it before, but I’d much rather use something else.

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          Thank you for pointing.

          I want address them to the possibility of the GUI integrations in NetworkManager in KDE and GNOME if he used GNU/Linux as well as configure the CLI client to start with a config file or the OpenVPN client in other OS.

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        The first is knowing your operating system to adapt a little tutorial.

        BackplaneDNS needs OpenVPN client and Riseup VPN has its own one I will link in a little.