this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
7 points (100.0% liked)

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

62519 readers
397 users here now

⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements.

Rules • Full Version

1. Posts must be related to the discussion of digital piracy

2. Don't request invites, trade, sell, or self-promote

3. Don't request or link to specific pirated titles, including DMs

4. Don't submit low-quality posts, be entitled, or harass others



Loot, Pillage, & Plunder

📜 c/Piracy Wiki (Community Edition):

🏴‍☠️ Other communities

FUCK ADOBE!

Torrenting/P2P:

Gaming:


💰 Please help cover server costs.

Ko-Fi Liberapay
Ko-fi Liberapay

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I've used proton for a year or two now and it is fine. Great for use on my phone when I want to use public/airport wifi and it sort of kind of works with gluetun (the rotating port is annoying but it still is a forwarded port).

But I've increasingly been annoyed with Proton as a company and am looking to migrate my email/domain to fastmail in the very near future. I COULD continue to just pay for the vpn (60 USD a year is pretty reasonable) but also feel like this is a good opportunity to "shop around"

Checked the wiki and other FAQs (which all basically crib from said wiki) and they all basically boil down to proton or mullivad... except that mullivad apparently stopped allowing port forwarding which is a bit of an issue for any torrents and the like.

So are there any other good options?

Thanks

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

What's going on with Proton the company?

Edit: ah fuck, thanks for the replies. Sigh.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Proton recently closed their masterdon account because of the mutual hostility

[–] nawordar@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

if anything they've reopened their account with Master Don

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Just FYI, the majority of Proton AG (which includes all Proton services) is owned by a non-profit body called the "Proton Foundation". This are headed by a board of 5 members, including Andy (CEO) and Tim Berners-Lee (the literal father of the internet as we know it).

Proton is fine.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

routing traffic through Israel is not fine.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then don’t do that? You have your choice of servers.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is a decontextualized post from 2015 that theorizes a DDoS attack on Proton at the time was coercion to "help" them by offering to proxy their traffic through Bynet in Israel for the purpose of tampering. Is there any other info out there to support this theory? It's intriguing and believable but also complete hearsay absent any other corroboration, context, further info, etc.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't trust proton. if you think you can trust proton, feel free to use them.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That didn't answer the question. You made an assertion, but haven't provided any evidence to support that claim.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I did provide evidence. you're asking for more evidence.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, you provided a conspiracy theory that fit your explicit biases. If you had bothered to actually read the link you provided, you would know they didn't provide any evidence to support their claim that Israel is hacking Proton.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the claim isn't that Israel is hacking proton. the claim is that proton routed traffic through an IDF affiliate.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now the "Switzerland" based privacy firm is proxied by an Israeli firm for traffic analysis, network exploitation of users, cryptographic monkeying

It literally claims that the traffic was routed expressly for the purpose. You didn't read the article.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I read it when it was published and stashed it for opportunities like this.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then you didn't read it very good, if you not only missed the fact the article was alleging Proton was hacked by Israel, as well as believe it provides proof of that claim when it does not.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the post is mostly verifiable information with two sentences of speculation that you seem to think is the crux of what I said, when, in fact, all I said is that routing traffic through Israel dimishes my trust in proton.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So your position is that they did something you didn't like a decade ago, and so that makes them untrustworthy now?

At least you've admitted that your argument is nothing more than an opinion.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago

trustworthiness is always a matter of opinion.

[–] Shadowfax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It should be noted everywhere that this person posts this, that this is an allegation without any actual evidence to support it.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, the post is a conspiracy theory that gives no evidence to support the claim. You can't use an allegation as evidence to support your allegation, that's circular logic.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's not circular logic. if you don't know, you can just not say things.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's very good advice. The article you links specifically says "Allegedly" in the title. Let me save you the hassle of getting a dictionary and explain to you the definition of "allegedly":

used when something is said to be true but has not been proved [source]

The article not only does not provide proof, but it admits that it does not provide it. You, however, continue to insist it does because you want it to be true.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not willing to risk that it might be true

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless you’re an Israel citizen then why does it matter? Chances are you passed data through an Israel server at some point in time whether it be directly or not.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 months ago

it's one reason among many.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Like basically all tech companies, the leadership are libertarian tech bros. It sucks, but whatever. The problem is also that the CEO (?) has been making public statements to try and cozy up to the trump administration over the past few months

Some of that still falls under the LTB effect (These policies benefit the company so fuck everyone else, etc) and it DOES make sense for a company to try and earn themselves an exception for the upcoming hellscape in a market that will REALLY want VPNs. But it still leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.

Not in an "I MUST LEAVE PROTON NOW" state since I like the products because they tend to be pretty honest about what they will and won't do when the goons come a knocking and that mostly boils down to "cooperate. So do X Y and Z to protect yourself by preventing us from having the information they want"). But that, plus protonmail being kind of a shitshow if you want to keep offline copies of your emails, is motivation to shop around.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't exactly call Tim Berners-Lee a "libertarian tech bro".