VPN4Life is a Scam - Yet another snake oil anonymity product
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Cheese @ 7th Jan 04:45PM:
Sigh....
Since what I posted got deleted for whatever reason, I stated I smell a lawsuit soon due to the fact that they are now claiming no refunds once they were found to be scammers.
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BigVe @ 7th Jan 04:49PM:
Re: Sigh....
Firefox say the site is dangerous so that's another reason to stay away
edit: Noscript don't like it either
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Cheese @ 7th Jan 04:50PM:
Re: Sigh....
said by BigVe :
Firefox say the site is dangerous so that's another reason to stay away
Really? Haven't been there, don't think I will now either! :o
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k1ll3rdr4g0n @ 7th Jan 04:55PM:
Re: Sigh....
said by Cheese :
Since what I posted got deleted for whatever reason, I stated I smell a lawsuit soon due to the fact that they are now claiming no refunds once they were found to be scammers.
For some reason "too good to be true" came into my head.
If this was lifetime of VPN - torrent or big downloads, I can kinda see it...but the price tag would have to be a little bigger. But, comeon, any technical person knows that torrents will rip through your available bandwidth.
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Siko @ 7th Jan 04:57PM:
Re: Sigh....
said by BigVe :
Firefox say the site is dangerous so that's another reason to stay away
Err... Ok... Most up to date firefox and it still shows up for me. I also use Open DNS as my DNS.
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DarkLogix @ 7th Jan 05:15PM:
Re: Sigh....
A torrent will only rip through your bandwidth if you let it
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iansltx @ 7th Jan 05:22PM:
Not horrible...
VPN4Life quickly refunded me when I asked, and even said in their "software delivery" email that refunds could be processed simply by replying to the software delivery email.
Also, the site is pretty basic. No malware that I can tell, but quite scammy.
Personally, I wish there was a VPN where you could buy GBs of bandwidth for a set price, then use them whenever. Maybe 25 cents per GB if you buy $10 worth, 20 if you buy $20, 10 if you buy $50. Cogent network would be fine :-)
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JJV @ 7th Jan 05:32PM:
Re: Not horrible...
Relakks offers a cheap service.
There is a free trial.
»https://www.relakks.com/
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k1ll3rdr4g0n @ 7th Jan 05:36PM:
Re: Not horrible...
said by iansltx :
VPN4Life quickly refunded me when I asked, and even said in their "software delivery" email that refunds could be processed simply by replying to the software delivery email.
Also, the site is pretty basic. No malware that I can tell, but quite scammy.
Personally, I wish there was a VPN where you could buy GBs of bandwidth for a set price, then use them whenever. Maybe 25 cents per GB if you buy $10 worth, 20 if you buy $20, 10 if you buy $50. Cogent network would be fine :-)
Pay double for an internet connection?
Its called HTTPS, or wait everyone complains about MITM attacks (even though that really couldn't happen in a VPN scenario). So you would pay lets say $10/5GBs from your ISP and $1/GB from VPN R' Us? Looks like these costs will build up pretty quickly if you ask me.
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iansltx @ 7th Jan 06:18PM:
Re: Not horrible...
I'm not paying $2 per GB to my ISP, more like 25 cents per GB. And if my traffic is valuable enough to be routed over a VPN, sure I'll pay a little extra change to do so. Intertubes cost money, yaknow? :)
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TCub @ 7th Jan 06:19PM:
Ha!
Of course they're giving out refunds. Thats a lawsuit waiting to happen. If you want some extra "security" on the internet and your a Mac or PC user try, PeerGaurdian. Its free, up to date, and shit as far as I can tell... it works.
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RR Conductor @ 7th Jan 09:03PM:
They can't even spell!
Connexion? Hmm, somebody needs to go back to school.
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knightmb @ 7th Jan 09:11PM:
Would it really sell if true?
I've got some good capacity/hardware setup to run such a service, but would people really pay for it? I mean, you VPN and then so what? What makes a real difference anyway if an ISP is going to throttle a service, wouldn't they target the "IP address with 10,000 simultaneous connections" first or just block the VPN service altogether if they wanted to?
How much would you be willing to pay/already pay for an open VPN service? ;)
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guhuna @ 7th Jan 10:00PM:
ah!
pwned?
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Desdinova @ 7th Jan 10:04PM:
Re: ah!
But...but..the site says they still have 17 left! Did I miss the cut-off!?
Oh, POOP. :p
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ctceo @ 8th Jan 01:46AM:
Re: Not horrible...
Isn't this like putting a straw inside a straw? This will still likely count against your ISP's cap if they have one.
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ctceo @ 8th Jan 01:53AM:
Back up?
I don't get any errors when going to the site, and the paypal seems to be back up.
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iansltx @ 8th Jan 02:23AM:
Re: Not horrible...
Absolutely. But it resolves the ACK-limiter problem.
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David @ 8th Jan 05:10AM:
Re: Not horrible...
said by JJV :Relakks offers a cheap service.
There is a free trial.
»
https://
www.relakks.com/ agreed, I use them and it's only about $65/yr to renew. Although if you do renew your service I would suggest you use IE for the transaction or have a really good translator for firefox.
Had I used IE I probably would not have struggled near as much to get the renewal done.
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anon @ 8th Jan 08:40AM:
Re: Back up?
Click the "proceed to checkout" button, where you will be taken to the screen saying payments are no longer being accepted for this account.
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NetAdmin @ 8th Jan 10:19AM:
Re: They can't even spell!
That was my first clue that these guys weren't the real deal. If they were serious about selling a real product, they would at least spell information and concepts related to it correctly.
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N10Cities @ 8th Jan 12:48PM:
Re: Back up?
Not now it looks like...
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ctceo @ 8th Jan 05:39PM:
Re: Back up?
Yup, Confirmed on that screenie. This time it's the site, and not just PayPal, lol.
Are we having issues VPN4LIFE?
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