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

Cryptostorm. Supports port forwarding, and you can buy access tokens through third parties using crypto. You do not register an account or provide them with any information to use the service, other than the token.

But honestly, Proton is the best route to go.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 5 days ago

Not audited sadly

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago

ProtonVPN has been a known data miner for years now. Cryptostorm's admins do know what they're doing. If you want an audit see mullvad or ipredator

[–] shut@lemmy.pt 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with NordVPN?

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I thought about publishing a Terraform module one time that spins up a cheap VPS, installs OpenVPN and then gives you a config with a certificate. You could run it for just a few hours at a time, and use destroy when you're done. But then I got really bored because I have ADHD.

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Why is NordVPN not mentioned ? I’m using it and happy so far. Should I switch to something else ?

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