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VPN vendor recommendations?

Journal by hubie

The 2018 Winter Olympics are upon us, but alas, I am yet again trapped and subject to the Olympic Experience that NBC is compelled to provide me. Unless they make a fundamental change this year, I am not allowed to access their "free" and wonderful coverage of all of the events via their streaming service because I am a cord cutter and I do not have a cable account id to use to login (ESPN is notorious for providing "free" access this way as well). I keep toying with the idea, but I never get over the activation energy to do it, but I would love to VPN into another country (Canada, England, etc.) to get my Olympics fix, but I don't know who provides reliable endpoints.

Does anyone have any recommendations for companies they've used, or better yet, specifically done this to get Olympics coverage? I don't see this as a long-term thing and is something I would only set up for certain events (Olympics, Rugby World Cup) as needed.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Gaaark on Friday January 26 2018, @09:55PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 26 2018, @09:55PM (#628561) Journal

    Private internet access
    https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ [privateinternetaccess.com]

    Have had nothing but good times with them, and they (unless the U.S. Gov is fecking with everyone which is not beyond belief) do not keep logs, which was tested in court...

    “A subpoena was sent to London Trust Media and the only information they could provide is that the cluster of IP addresses being used was from the east coast of the United States,” the FBI’s complaint reads.

    “However, London Trust did provide that they accept payment for their services through credit card with a vendor company of Stripe and/or Amazon. They also accept forms of payment online through PayPal, Bitpay, Bit Coin, Cash You, Ripple, Ok Pay, and Pay Garden.”

    Works in linux (they have easy set up in Ubuntu, but i use them from Arch/Manjaro).
    Could not ask for better, IMHO.

    I know you'll hear the same from a few more at soylentnews. :)

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:28PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday January 27 2018, @07:28PM (#629057) Homepage Journal

      Seconded. They have proven their trustworthiness in court and have a damned lot of endpoints both internal to the US and abroad.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:43PM

        by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 27 2018, @08:43PM (#629132) Journal

        I find that Romania seems to have a nice solid connection for some reason.

        There are a couple that will close down after a couple hours (I think it was Italy that particularly irked me)
        But Canada and the U.S. have a couple good connections and Europe.

        I use Romania far more than i should, lol.
        Bad Gaaark.
        :)

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday January 26 2018, @11:04PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday January 26 2018, @11:04PM (#628606) Homepage

    Google search "Winter Olympics stream." Enjoy for free and with no VPN and no hassle!

    Note: that's probably illegal.

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