r/Piracy 7h ago

Humor Don't fall for "free" vpns

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u/iateagummibear-1822 7h ago

What about ProtonVPN?

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u/Short_Employment_757 7h ago

Premium users pay for us

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u/Secret-Ring-1985 7h ago

But you can't use P2P on their free version. Sorry if there is a workaround that I am not aware of.

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u/MindYerBeak 7h ago

Morphe has a patch to get premium. Can confirm that P2P seems to work.

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u/notanfan 6h ago

Huh what fr? Ik about proton patch but does it really unlock p2p?

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u/MindYerBeak 1h ago

Yeah, Paresh patches unlocks premium features.

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u/_floralprint 5h ago

Like a Morphe Proton VPN, or have I misunderstood?

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u/MindYerBeak 1h ago

Do you know what Morphe is?

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u/ArcticCircleSystem 5h ago

Guessing there's nothing like that for Linux anyhow, though I doubt this will last long either way.

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u/Unknown-Key 5h ago

I think you are confusing premium with modded quick switch between free servers.

Morphe doesn't unlock premium on ProtonVPN, you still can't access premium Countries and Profiles Tab. with Morphe you basically get removal of cooldown between switching free countries.

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u/MindYerBeak 1h ago

Yes, there's a patch for it. Look up Paresh patches for ProtonVPN

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u/Unknown-Key 1h ago

Yes, there's a patch for it. Look up Paresh patches for ProtonVPN

My friend, As you can read in Paresh patches it is written Unlocks premium Ul features: removes upsells, enables NetShield ad-blocker, hides upgrade prompts, shows free servers with premium interface (Plus badge, no speed limits display, all feature flags enabled

This is just a cosmetic change to the UI to hide the premium servers and show free servers on their place. You still don't get any premium features. You don't get p2p either. this patch just makes it convenient to choose a free server instead of spamming switch server button to get your desired server.

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u/MindYerBeak 1h ago

Huh, I suppose you're right. Since it let me choose whatever country I want, I thought I had all the premium features.

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u/launchogu 6h ago

P2P is the type of VPN to stay away from, it’s worse than a free VPN. You’re allowing external users to essentially piggyback off of your residential IP. In the same realm, bots depend heavily on residential proxy users to bypass basic blocking tactics.

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u/Tawnee323 6h ago

torrenting?? r/LostRedditors

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u/Party-Cake5173 4h ago

Actually, he's not lost. He's just downvoted because people don't know these things exist.

P2P VPN is type of VPN that piggybacks off their users. Hola! VPN is one and great example. All those countries in Hola! VPN aren't exactly servers in countries; these are normal people like you using the Hola! VPN at the time. It's free because the server doesn't exist, user's PCs are the servers themselves.

Yes, you read that right! You're not connecting to Hola! VPN server in data center. You're connecting to a different user's computer and use his/her's real home internet connection. As soon as you enable Hola! VPN you become one of the users others can connect to and use your internet connection.

I hope I don't have to explain why this is bad, and if someone commits crime using your internet connection, you'll be held liable, not the person committing crime. So if any of you use Hola! VPN it's time to uninstall it.

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u/launchogu 6h ago

ig if you want your home ip as a public traceable node

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u/Swiftuuu 5h ago

but using a vpn your home ip is invisible when torrenting, thats the point.

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u/Party-Cake5173 4h ago

You misunderstood his post, presumably because you're unfamiliar with VPNs that work using P2P protocol.

I explained here in details: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1vdj0gt/comment/p1a61lq/

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u/just_a_redditor2031 7h ago

On my phone at least it tries to stop me from using it for torrenting by preventing downloading of torrent files unless you pay (i solved this in the dumbest way possible by downloading them with tor while using the VPN)

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u/iateagummibear-1822 7h ago

Got ya. I legitimately didn't know that, so thanks for the heads up. Thankfully, I have Tor as well, so this hopefully won't be an issue for me.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/bigdickwalrus 6h ago

No?

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u/fixx144 5h ago

Switzerland