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Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ugh, I use proton for VPN and email. Any suggestions for decent VPN at this point?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've used Mullvad for a couple of years now and they're great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Sadly, mullvad doesn't rotate their IPs so they often get blocked and detected. You're kicked off many websites and services

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Unless you never want to torrent, I would not choose mullvad. Torrenting requires port forwarding if you properly want to give back to the community, which mullvad doesn't support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

AirVPN is great, allows port forwarding, 5 devices, and they run very good black Friday specials every year if you decide to buy it after trialling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't have any complaints with Nord but other people seem to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

A lot of connectivity issues in some countries, and the app is often bugged when switching servers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I had it for over a year and then, one day, every time I stepped outside my home, it would go into “connecting…” and never come back.

I’d have to go into settings and completely deleted it, then re-add. I gave up, and went to proton. Literally zero issues until the ceo started praising nazis

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nord has no port forwarding. No deal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Very few VPNs have that