I have been using PIA for years and I was thinking of switching to Protons VPN (as well as storage, email and password manager) and I was wondering what everyone else thought of it. Is it as stable and useful as PIA?

PIA has proven in court that it doesn’t keep logs, but what about Proton?

  • DARbarian
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    211 year ago

    According to r/VPNTorrents, Proton and AirVPN are the only recommended VPNs since they are the only well-established privacy-respecting ones left. New ones are popping up with promise, like Azire, but time will tell. As for Proton, I decided against it because of limited port forwarding and lack of IPv6 compatibility and settled on AirVPN. Also, I personally try to avoid keeping all my eggs in a single corporation’s basket, so I cannot advise buying into the full Proton suite if you’re remotely tech savvy and/or privacy-concerned. But they are genuinely great products if you have no desire to do any tinkering or shopping around. I just can’t see the appeal in my VPN activities being directly tied to my email. Oh and I almost forgot, I switched from PIA due to their lack of IPv6 support and acquistion by Kape, a known adware company.

    • DARbarian
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      131 year ago

      PS: AirVPN, in my opinion, is the last great VPN. Open-source, run by activists, anonymous accounts, crypto purchasing, IPv6 compatibility, full port forwarding, great support, Tor integration, the list goes on.

        • DARbarian
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          41 year ago

          Well, to put it one way, Mullvad is almost definitely the best VPN that doesn’t offer port forwarding. Which, in reality, may only be absolutely crucial for torrenting.

    • @missveeronica@lemmynsfw.comOP
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      51 year ago

      My Proton email is just a fallback and privacy based activities. Nothing nefarious, just stuff I’d prefer to keep off Google’s servers.

      • DARbarian
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        71 year ago

        Ah makes sense then. Proton is my main until I get around to self-hosted email.