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
Using VPN over TOR greatly reduces performance. Also, for most cases TOR is enough,. Why would you slap a VPN on top of it?
Ah I thought you meant during signup. I thought they were audited and provided proof that they don’t log anything? Is that fake?
They’ve been audited twice:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/privacy-audit/
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/security-audit-2024/ (PDF)
If they were audited, I have not heard of that. In such case I am sorry for misinformation.
However their nature would require to audit every single node to prove a non-log policy. That is not possible for obvious reasons. Their idea is that you do not need to no if they have logs as this logs would be relatively useless. But that would only work if no one controls a huge chunk of their mixnet simultaneously.