It locks itself up on startup with network lock then tries to connect to it's VPN servers, which it fails due to it locking itself out of the network.įor years now ( 5 years AirVPN user) I was NEVER able to leave Eddie connected 24/7 without babysitting the client. Just yesterday even with 350 days left I uninstalled eddie. It would just sometimes completely stop working and I have to restart the whole PC for God knows why because it's stuck in a reconnect loop for some fucking reason support cannot resolve. On PC for a few years now Eddie is a VPN client that I had to babysit for the most part. The moment I turn it off, all my notifications come FLOODING. I'd notice from time to time my phone goes real quiet. I will add to this as I am also a mobile user of airVPN. AirVPN support is downright hostile to whomever questions them in the slightest. Hopefully, this review will convince at-least 5 people to not use Air and undo the wrong I did in recommending them. This was 1 or 2 years ago and to this day, they still use Air. I am ashamed to say that before all this happened, I did recommend Air to 5 of my friends and all of them bought subscriptions. I do wish I had taken a screenshot of the comment before they saw it/banned-me, but I didn't. My posts got removed (this last one didn't even get accepted) and so there is no way for me to provide proof. I don't think this warrants a ban, nor do I think I deserved a ban in the other account. This last post got me banned again (on another account of course). With daily commits, it is much easier to see what is being changed and to do periodic code reviews. This is due to "dumping" a large code-base all at once, as opposed to doing commits daily. The thing with code-dumps is that it is not friendly to the open-source community and makes it easy to obfuscate code. Once you release the source-code for the stable release, you'll most likely do a code dump.You are asking people to run a closed-source software, which has implications from a moral, security and privacy standpoint. I find that to be unethical, for two reasons: Yes, it is not open-source but once we release a stable release we'll make it GPLv3. I commented something like this (paraphrased):Īm I right in thinking that this client is not open-source, since the code is nowhere to be found? More recently, they released a new VPN client without releasing the source-code. They remove posts they do not like, they ban users who often disagree with them and they only leave things that paint them in a good light. Lifetime ban.Īt this point, I started noticing that their forum is basically an ad. I basically said "This was really amateur guys, I expected more from you". I made sure to state that this move by them was "amateur" and that I "expected more of them". The implications of this could range from nothing, to a fine for torrenting, to having one's life threatened if one lived in a country without the basic human-rights. This means that, at one point, I connected to the internet without using a VPN. Experience 2Īt one point they changed the binary from AirVPN to Eddie and that made it so their client no longer started automatically on my system. They told me they did not delete personal tickets and there was nothing they/I could do. I had some personal information on them and that is why I asked if they could delete my messages. I sent quite a few support tickets and then, after a while, I asked if they could delete them. TLDR: AirVPN is, in my opinion, an unethical VPN, their customer service is crap and I do NOT recommend them to anyone. I will, however, review their customer service. I won't be reviewing the technical side of AirVPN as it is as good as any other good VPN.
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