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

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[–] land@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If you mainly do torrenting, AirVPN is a good option. I have recently moved away from ProtonVPN; it’s too expensive.

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[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Mullvad, IVPN and ~~Nym~~ (not tested with audits yet, do not trust as much as the other two).

For clearnet browsing. PIA, AirVPN and Windscribe for torrenting. Windscribe and PIA are probably good for either but this is my classification, take it as you will

[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I agree on this with the exception of PIA.

Marketing is BS like most VPN
Company is based in the USA
They do analytics
You cannot register "anonymously"

It's not the worst VPN you could choose but there is better options.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait don't they take crypto? Just fake your details

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They also take your IP.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Over TOR?

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

PIA user here. It gets the job done

[–] DARbarian@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AirVPN, IVPN, Mullvad, Windscribe

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The requirement for port forwarding narrows that down to AirVPN and Windscribe, which is an unfortunately small set of choices.

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

Cryptostorm. Supports port forwarding, and you can buy access tokens through third parties using crypto. You do not register an account or provide them with any information to use the service, other than the token.

But honestly, Proton is the best route to go.

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

ProtonVPN has been a known data miner for years now. Cryptostorm's admins do know what they're doing. If you want an audit see mullvad or ipredator

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Try Orbot. I use it and works pretty great.

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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you want port forwarding the choice is between AirVPN, ProtonVPN and Njalla. Iirc PIA also supports port forwarding, but their ownerships reputation is no good.

Mullvad, IVPN and many other services don't support port forwarding.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any experience with Njalla? This would be my first time purchasing a VPN and I couldn't imagine a better provider on paper.

I just don't know anything practical about it besides it's founded by a member of the swedish pirate party.

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[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Why is NordVPN not mentioned ? I’m using it and happy so far. Should I switch to something else ?

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