mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.
you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.
just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.
The reason they disabled this was it was a possible privacy leak. This means if you are using a VPN that enables port forwarding, you might be at risk.
FYI it’s not like he’s pro-MAGA or anything. He’s a known liberal supporter in fact. All he did was tweet that Gail Slater was a good nomination. Personally, I think it’s a good thing to praise one’s political enemies on the rare occasion they do something good. Here’s an article with a deeper look.
Here’s what I was remembering; the Proton CEO had praise for some of the new Trump admin’s anti-trust statements last January, and seemed to support them more generally.
What ended up happening with that? It looked like he tried to walk it back, and maybe didn’t intend for that to use the official Proton account?
Listen man. There are no non sketchy VPN there never has been there never ever will be. Period. All you can do is the least worst one and that is proton today. Might be someone else tomorrow. If anyone tries to tell you anything different they are a liar or ignorant.
I’m all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
Mullvad
mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.
you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.
just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.
The reason they disabled this was it was a possible privacy leak. This means if you are using a VPN that enables port forwarding, you might be at risk.
As a new user of proton… Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven’t heard anything negative.
Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments
Thanks for replying. What do you use instead?
FYI it’s not like he’s pro-MAGA or anything. He’s a known liberal supporter in fact. All he did was tweet that Gail Slater was a good nomination. Personally, I think it’s a good thing to praise one’s political enemies on the rare occasion they do something good. Here’s an article with a deeper look.
@lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works
Well, thanks for the context. I still hate the tweet. The tweet itself didn’t promote a specific nom – it promoted Republicans
Okay, thanks for the context. I caught the initial blowup when I was looking at VPN options originally, but never heard any of the follow-up.
I’m going to switch to Mullvad. Just need to sit down and do it. Maybe this weekend.
And sorry, it was the CEO, not CTO. Here’s a source
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
Here’s what I was remembering; the Proton CEO had praise for some of the new Trump admin’s anti-trust statements last January, and seemed to support them more generally.
What ended up happening with that? It looked like he tried to walk it back, and maybe didn’t intend for that to use the official Proton account?
Listen man. There are no non sketchy VPN there never has been there never ever will be. Period. All you can do is the least worst one and that is proton today. Might be someone else tomorrow. If anyone tries to tell you anything different they are a liar or ignorant.