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I could add the provider that I myself use for testing and maintain
that chapter. Has a paid and free service. But free only good for
testing since it has capped bandwidth . But no registration
required.
- Drawback - This could be seen as Whonix endorsing the provider.
Even if there was a warning “Whonix does not endorse any provider”
just mentioning the provider would likely push many user to purchase
a package. So I’m not going to name this provider unless you thought
it would be an option.
Sounds ok to me. We can’t stop users from shooting their own feet. We
have VPN Tunnel Setup Examples in the wiki
for years already. No one ever complained. However, we can do better:
- disclose relationship or better non-relationship with the provider,
mention we don’t take any money or other kind of benefit from them - mention no contractual relationship with the provider exists
- mention we only use the provider to document an example
- mention we can switch to be using another provider at any time
- mention this is not an endorsement
- mention difficulties with anonymous payments, link to Money wiki page
- mention that we may consider using another VPN provider as example if
they pay to be listed in that spot and if they qualify (“quality VPN
only”, not an easy task to review but we can think of something: crypto
currency payments possible, bitcoin payments possible, monero payments
possible, no log policy, good reputation, no known cases of malicious
behavior, long term track record and perhaps other objective factors),
but if someone pays to be in that spot, it will be disclosed as well
Recently a user posted a VPN provider who had documentation covering
Whonix and who provided a Whonix specific VPN setup script so Whonix is
getting more relevant.