I’ve been using Express and had a great experience so far, but I may want to try a Proton subscription for cloud space and more emails. It also comes with a VPN service but I’m a little leary on trying something new. Any thoughts on Proton VPN?
Don’t use shady vpn’s like express, nord vpn. etc. they’re all removed. At the moment I can only reccomend: Mullvad, Proton and IVPN. I would like to disclose that I am a proton subscriber but also a privacy nut that has done a lot of research about this.
Also a subscriber, also pleased.
More importantly, as an aspiring privacy nut, can you share that research with me?
Curious: what makes Nord shady? Their model seemed similar to Proton when I was researching the two. What’d I miss?
The biggest thing that did it for me was who runs Nord? Not business entities but the people.
Protons leadership is out in the open with their names (fwiw their CEO is even on the Higgs paper, lol), but Nord has a very intransparent structure.
Been using it on my phone and browsers for maybe a year. Works great.
Browser plugin can be a bit shaky at times, but that might just be some side effect from my config of LibreWolf or something else.
I’m a sub to their services and use it for travel and getting UK shows on BBC that don’t come to the US. Works great and no complaints.
I’ve had Proton for a while, I’m satisfied, would recommend.
Previously I used to use Nord, but ever since… Uh I forgot what they did. They changed headquarters? Disclosed something they shouldn’t? Somebody here will correct me and point out what happened.
Anyway, Proton 👍
It’s quite good and also I like that they largely support Linux. They have phone apps, browser extensions, desktop apps, and even CLIs. They also have downloadable configurations for OpenVPN and WireGuard if you want to go that route. They’ve also got what I assume are fairly basic features of most VPNs like kill switching, private DNS servers, etc.
Browser extension for the VPN? I remember asking in the forums some time back and they were extremely hostile to the idea.
Why would they be hostile to that idea? It allows you to run the VPN only on your browser instead of your entire system which is sometimes preferable.
That was my point. They (forum users, I don’t think actual developers) insisted that it’s a middle solution. That I could use the application and whitelist only the browser and that some JS could bypass the VPN and get the real IP.
I got two years of Nord for that same reason, then two of Proton that’s about to end, so this was probably around 4 years ago.
