Daily Deal: TigerVPN Lite Lifetime Subscription
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It’s so important to keep your data as secure as you can these days. VPNs can be a great way to keep your privacy protected. For $29, the TigerVPN Lite Subscription, on offer in the Deals store, can help you surf securely via one of their 15 worldwide nodes. It is compatible with most devices (sorry Windows Phone owners) and allows you to choose your preferred encryption protocol. TigerVPN responded to TorrentFreak’s VPN review survey, so you can learn a bit more about their policies and practices (they have the second set of responses on that page).
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Comments on “Daily Deal: TigerVPN Lite Lifetime Subscription”
Has anyone used TigerVPN or have a solid review of it? The current reviews online seem mixed at best, either appearing to be purchased reviews with a bit too much praise or all out hatred.
The reddit presence of the company (u/tigervpn) seems a bit dodgy in supporting the community of users there too (often dropping threads/not responding to questions in conversation)…
Unlimited bandwidth perhaps, but no torrents in the US. I’ll pass.
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You can torrent in Canada 😉 the US is the only country with a lot of pain with regards to torrent. We don’t like moving infrastructure each and every month because datacenter providers are shutting down the service after the 839 email you got with regards to infringement mail of some whatnot lame TV shows 🙂
How about ExpressVPN?
I’d sure like to see a lifetime deal with ExpressVPN.
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Lifetime
What does this mean: “NOTE: Changes to the subscription may invalid the lifetime subscription (e.g. upgrades).”
I once purchased a ‘lifetime’ anti-virus, including upgrades and virus signature files. I learned the hard way that ‘lifetime’ generally does not take longer than three years on the internet.
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We had to build that lifetime really fast and we didn’t want to break the Dashboard logic by deactivating the upgrade options so we wanted to make sure people understand that. A lot of customers wanted upgrades so they were able to make them in the dashboard but we can’t handle 100.000 manual requests for upgrades. It kind of goes without saying that this is a specific product and would not apply for any changes. e.g. you buy the lifetime and expect to hit the upgrade button pay 9$ for the monthly plan obviously will overwrite your product. But hey, we went even so far to adjust the length for our upgrade customers manually – especially – because we stick to what we say!
Can someone please answer a question?
I’ve never used a VPN, I’ve only read a little about them. There are guides detailing how to set up a VPN connection using nothing more than the features that are already built into Windows. Yet most VPN services use OpenVPN or some other client running on the user’s machine.
Does running a dedicated VPN client give better security or allow you to do something that the built-in options don’t? Or is it just a case of giving less technical users a pretty front end so that they don’t have to mess with the underlying Windows settings?
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I am no expert on this topic – but one difference you may note is – some dedicated clients will “cut off” the connection if the VPN “fails”, while others (including PERHAPS the built in stuff) will “fall back” to non-VPN “normal internet” (and sometimes with no notification of that being the case). This may or may not be an important consideration for you to check into..
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I’ve heard of the issue of a VPN connection failing and the computer falling back to using a non-VPN connection. I read one article where the author configured their system so that it was impossible to connect to the net except through a VPN.
” Or is it just a case of giving less technical users a pretty front end so that they don’t have to mess with the underlying Windows settings?”
I believe so. I subscribed to a (fairly well known) VPN service and set up my own Win settings instead of using the dedicated client (who knows what else it is doing?). Works fine.
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Thanks for the reply. I’ve always been one to question whether or not I truly need a particular piece of software.
Way back when I signed up for my first dial-up internet account, the salesperson tried to convince me to wait for them to send me a setup disc, but I was impatient and insisted on having tech support walk me through setting up a connection just using Windows. That worked fine and when the disc came in the mail, I just filed it away. I looked at it once, and it looked like it would have installed loads of extra crap. I saw graphics for buttons listing News, Shopping, Sports, etc.
This IS TOTAL B.S.!
These guys tried this yesterday at BoingBoing and got rightly shot down. Here’s a copy of my post yesterday:
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These guys keep coming back here with new names. They specifically **DO NOT MENTION DATA LOGGING**!. If they keep logs of your data, when the feds come calling, you’re toast. In other words, here again is that proverbial 10-foot pole, as in: “I wouldn’t touch this with a 10-foot pole”!
By all means, check them out if you like; than come back and check out one of the best write-ups on VPNs. It’s a bit out of date but still valid with useful info, and at least you’ll know what to look for in a legit VPN service.
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/07/08/is-your-vpn-legit-or-shit/
Re: This IS TOTAL B.S.!
Odd…they specifically told torrentfreak they do not log:
https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-take-your-anonymity-seriously-2014-edition-140315/
That said, I looked up their IPs and they are from a company called Anexia internetdienstleistungs gmbh. It appears they are running they’re VPN servers on virtual servers of Anexia? Which is a security concern.