All this talk about the new legislation with ISPs gathering your data for 1.5 years has got me worried.
Can anyone recommend a good, free, relatively simple VPN service for mac and also perhaps a place to get IP addresses to use with it (I’m new to this concept)
I’ve had a free account at hideipvpn.com for almost a year now and it’s been awesome. The catch is that you can’t just sign up for a free account, you have to wait until they offer free accounts which is like once per week or so. You can also contact the people and if you agree to, put up a small banner link on your website to their site and they’ll give you a free account without having to wait.
Simple, fast, free.
I recommend http://hidemyass.com/vpn/ they have easy to use software and enough server locations for decent connection speeds.
Check this link http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/best-free-vpn-services
Here you will find out the list of VPN Providers who are offering Free Trial 
Sure, and while you’re at it, give him free gasoline and free beer{.}
There is no such thing as a free and good VPN service. Either you pay good money and get good service, or you get (crappy) service for free and get screwed in a non-obvious way.
Why viscosity over the built in support for VPNs in OS X?
For the protocol: Using a VPN doesn’t protect your privacy per se. Authorities can request logs about your activity under the IP you were using from a VPN provider just like they would do with an ISP. The twist about Anonine is that they, unlike most VPN providers, don’t store any logs whatsoever. So don’t use a random free VPN if you really care about your privacy, go for Anonine.
What does it do to your connection speed?
Hmm, interesting. I can use it as defaults and I can ping outside IP’s at will. But no DNS.
Time to dig in to the docs…
I don’t know why you are being downvoted, this is completely the case. Free VPN services are both terrible & risky.
I use VyprVPN because it comes with my Giganews service, and it’s great. I would recommend it. They also offer a VPN connection over every possible protocol, so it’s easy to set up on restrictive networks like 3G (Rogers in Canada blocks PPTP connections over 3G). Also, any real VPN doesn’t need to be “for Mac”. It will work with the generic VPN support provided in OS X, Windows, iOS, and many other platforms.
Plus TOR is slow as balls.
let me know what you find
Reddit comment voting … I just don’t care any more.
I don’t need a VPN, that’s why I can’t recommend one. But I’m in the network business, and I can guarantee, that there is no such thing as free traffic. You route someone else’s traffic, you pay for it. A “free” VPN service has to make money somehow. I would rather pay them directly instead of not knowing what they do to make money out of me and all of my traffic.
Great quote: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”
Unfortunately I can’t name the origin.
Yeah I hadn’t used it until 10.7. You know it looks like Viscosity adds quite a bit of information into the mix and that may be worthwhile. I just like integrated support when possible because it’s one less thing to install.
Yeah it certainly looked well integrated.