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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[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're right but if it's something that sensitive I'd rather use TOR/I2P

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I2P is not an option because I'm using a VPN for regular internet traffic. As much as I like the idea of I2P, there's just no I2P torrent sites with the selection of content I want.

Tor is not an option for torrents.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think PIA is decent for torrenting and Mullvad for privacy

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That's fine. It completely depends on your threat model and your preferences. To this date I haven't heard anything negative about PIA except their owners, so it's fair to trust them. I just want to point out that you can have both with other providers.

Generating a random account number is a unique and great feature of Mullvad.
But other providers allow for the same privacy. E.g. AirVPN does not require a valid email address. Any random string works for all required fields (email, username, password). Payment via Monero is available too. Njalla does require a valid email address (it sends a confirmation mail), but any tempmail provider works (which you could access through Tor). They also accept Monero.

[–] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Impressive, I didn't know AirVPN accepted XMR. That greatly influences my decision about them vs PIA and others. I wanted a VPN which I could pay for anonymously and could torrent with (open ports)