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Mullvad VPN or Proton VPN? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Ste41th@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Basically I started with mullvad then turned to proton but after they introduced AI and a crypto wallet I’m just looking for what peoples opinions are.

EDIT: Thank you all for your suggestions and opinions :D

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[–] LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.org 101 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Use Mullvad, unless you absolutely require port forwarding.

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

This is the best answer.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Proton has port forwarding? Source?

[–] eating3645@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding-manual-setup/

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

God damn that's complicated compared to PIA

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pia is owned by very sketchy Kape Technologies, just FYI.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but their stack is open source, with no evidence of wrongdoing, and proven no log track record. Their servers have no persistent storage. The threat model isn't the fuckin NSA lol

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While PIA Might not have done any wrong doing, Kape Technologies definitely has. Imo, it's not worth funding.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I have a proton subscription but it's not worth the effort to port forward until their app can do it

[–] Fyurion@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I dont know why that has you doing so much, I use port forwarding with proton vpn and all I did was press a button in the proton vpn app and it was on.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

That's the manual setup for use cases like on a server or whatever (a common place where you would need port forwarding)

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What OS?

[–] Fyurion@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Windows 11

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Ah that'll do it. Seems more effort has been put into the windows app

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Thank you for your opinion

[–] TheSun@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

And if you need port forwarding use airvpn. Proton seems more and more sketch every day

[–] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Or you already use Proton Mail / Drive etc and want to save a bit of money with Proton Unlimited at 9.99 EUR/USD / mo. That’s why I switched from Mullvad. I do agree that overall though Mullvad is the best in terms of trustworthiness (so far as we know anyway)