Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven’t gotten into proper #piracy is that I don’t have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don’t have a VPN is that I don’t #torrent. So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while #degoogling myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don’t hide what you’re downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don’t fully understand.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      They have servers specifically for port forwarding and P2P traffic

      Sadly with Mullvad closing port forwarding, they are one of the only ones you can torrent with. In all honesty, if it’s torrenting setting up a seedbox is really the way to go.

      • fanta69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Air vpn too. I had a bit of back and forth swapping between proton and air vpn after Mullvad closing port forwarding. Protons spilt tunnelling is far better than air vpn, but their speeds were appalling so eventually I stuck with air vpn with a script to divert only the torrent traffic through the vpn. Man do I miss Mullvad!

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I’ve been enjoying the fact that airvpn let’s you open 5 ports, haven’t had any issues with them after my first few months.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, but PIA also has the issue of being owned by a company known for hiding malware in their programs. Seriously, go google Kape (the parent company for PIA) and you may reconsider using it. Their CEO prior to the buyout had also formerly been convicted for some sort of financial crimes. Off the top of my head, I think it may have been some sort of fraud or embezzlement?

          • EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I know this was all a big deal when PIA was taken over, and everybody was afraid PIA would be ruined. But none of that happened. Maybe it’s just a matter of time, who knows.

            • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              I think the point they were making was that a shitty person, as evidenced by his list of crimes, will run a company, shittily. The point of a VPN is anonymity. What good is that promise coming from a shitty, shady person?

              • EyesEyesBaby@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I know, and I fully understand if you stay far away from PIA for those reasons. But like I said, PIA has proven (in court) that they actually provide anonymity.

      • nullboi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m not the smartest bowl in the… bowl drawer, but wouldn’t removing port forwarding just affect speed? Or would it stop torentting with Mullvad entirely? I just topped my account off lol