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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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 days ago (2 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.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why do we care about their ownership if it's proven that they don't log and let you forward ports?

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

Given there're alternatives I'd rather choose an independent service instead.

But that's a personal decision which is why I mentioned PIA with the disclaimer, instead of ignoring them.

[–] dzsimbo@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days 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.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

I've never used them but I heard about them in the context of private DNS and VPS hosting. E.g. they act as a middleman to shield domain the shield the client from authorities (at least to some extent — they still have to follow the laws).

Given their focus on privacy I'd trust them for torrenting at least as much as the other options. As a first VPN I'd say it's great because of their flat 5€/m price. A few years ago I used Mullvad for that purpose — until they removed port forwarding.