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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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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Mullvad is currently highly trusted by the community. If you lost your trust in proton I recommend switching back to it.

[–] Bruhh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Huge fan of Mullvad for the work around respecting users privacy. They are implementing ways of skewing AI-guided traffic analysis. VPN encrypts your data but companies are starting to use AI to look at traffic patterns and help determine what that data is. I won't pretend to understand it completely so I'd recommend reading their blog about it.

I've been eyeing PIA for it's price and the inclusion of port forwarding but not sure if anyone has experience with PIA.

[–] Der_Fossyler@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

IMHO Mullvad

[–] shekau@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago

Mullvad only!!!

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Mullvad/IVPN for their pay with cash policies

[–] LittleBobbyTables@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Use Mullvad, unless you absolutely require port forwarding.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Proton has port forwarding? Source?

[–] eating3645@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

God damn that's complicated compared to PIA

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

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

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