I’ve been using Express and had a great experience so far, but I may want to try a Proton subscription for cloud space and more emails. It also comes with a VPN service but I’m a little leary on trying something new. Any thoughts on Proton VPN?
I use it when I’m on travel. It’s pretty decent, and it wasn’t hard to import the Wireguard configs into Network Mangler.
It’s quite good and also I like that they largely support Linux. They have phone apps, browser extensions, desktop apps, and even CLIs. They also have downloadable configurations for OpenVPN and WireGuard if you want to go that route. They’ve also got what I assume are fairly basic features of most VPNs like kill switching, private DNS servers, etc.
Browser extension for the VPN? I remember asking in the forums some time back and they were extremely hostile to the idea.
Why would they be hostile to that idea? It allows you to run the VPN only on your browser instead of your entire system which is sometimes preferable.
It works for me
I have been using for the past month. I am not a power user, I mostly use it when I need to access libgen. Previously, I was using nordvpn. I feel proton is faster both when connecting to a server but also the connection is faster/more reliable. For example, if I forget to turn it off, I can watch a yt video without any issues.
I switched to Proton from Express when the latter was bought out by Kape.
Proton works perfectly so far for me. Their desktop software was a bit meh, but they’ve since improved it. Otherwise I have no notes.
I only use proton VPN for public wifi and have had no issues with it. Can select your locations and some do support torrenting if you need that.
You can always try out their free Tier.
While you get limited bandwidth it’s really okayish for normal use. Do not try to download over torrent, it’s disabled in the free tier.
I’m very Happy with their free tier, I even route my mobile’s traffic through the same VPN connection with wireguard and some iptables.
Do not try to download over torrent, it’s disabled in the free tier.
Found that out when a friend shared their screen on Discord and my internet went down lol. It’s all p2p traffic.
I use it through a docker container for certain services that should not use my own public ip. It works great, very stable, great performance and they don’t discriminate against certain types of traffic
The free tier is faster than paid tiers of lower quality VPNs.
I assume that the paid tier would be excellent
This said, I find it too expensive for my uses
I’ve had Proton for a while, I’m satisfied, would recommend.
Previously I used to use Nord, but ever since… Uh I forgot what they did. They changed headquarters? Disclosed something they shouldn’t? Somebody here will correct me and point out what happened.
Anyway, Proton 👍
I use proton vpn secure core on my desktop browser via the extension and mullvad everywhere else, I like it for that but not much else since mullvad is just better with their ram only servers
Use it daily - phone set to turn on VPN when I leave home. Occasionally use it indoors. No probs - not much difference in speed.
Can use default (fastest) server or take you pick from quite a few choices - again not much speed difference.YMMV
Don’t use shady vpn’s like express, nord vpn. etc. they’re all shit. At the moment I can only reccomend: Mullvad, Proton and IVPN. I would like to disclose that I am a proton subscriber but also a privacy nut that has done a research about this.
Also a subscriber, also pleased.
More importantly, as an aspiring privacy nut, can you share that research with me?
I meant at a lot of research abut forgot “lot”. I didn’t mean to imply to have written a research paper. but https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ is a good place to start.
Curious: what makes Nord shady? Their model seemed similar to Proton when I was researching the two. What’d I miss?
The biggest thing that did it for me was who runs Nord? Not business entities but the people.
Protons leadership is out in the open with their names (fwiw their CEO is even on the Higgs paper, lol), but Nord has a very intransparent structure.
on the surface they do a lot right. warrant canary, no logs, solid infrastructure, profitable.
for me, i really don’t like the weird ways that they market. super misleading to imply that they make a person “anonymous” and/or greatly improve your privacy beyond you sending them your information instead of your isp. i also really dont like the lack of transparency, particularly with closed-source clients. i also really don’t like the number of controversies that nord has been in, even insofar as getting hacked. i don’t want my vpn provider to have any, let alone quite a few, of these controversies.
in terms of the model, proton is transitioning to a non-profit which reinforces why they are so well-regarded by the community. long history of doing right by consumers, where it matters most.
Yep, I use it. I like it.
I’ve used Mullvad in the past and I use Proton now. It works well for me and afaik they’re a pretty good company. I found that Mullvad was better, but I’m still using Proton because the email + storage make it better overall.