I’m thinking about paying for a VPN, I currently don’t use one.
I’d like to use Mullvad but they don’t seem to have regional prices, while Proton does.
I wonder if Proton is still a reliable option, Proton is 60% cheaper in my country, probably because regional pricing (but I didn’t check if it’s really the case).
If anyone has any other suggestion I’d like to hear it.
Proton’s CEO sucks. I canceled my extremely low-priced, grandfathered subscription and moved elsewhere. I had been a user since basically day one, a subscriber since available, and converted family members and friends to it. Not anymore.
Mullvad has been stellar. Fast, anonymous, easy to use. Zero complaints.
I like mullvad because I can pay for it with vouchers and have nothing to tie my payment to my account#
I don’t think any other VPN can do that.
Theres also the fact that mullvad was raided by the (Swedish)police and even though they fully complied, the police ended up walking away with nothing because mullvad had nothing to give them.
Proton on the other hand, will at the very least be storing your email, payment info, and possibly other info in your account that mullvad won’t. I also don’t like how they have aligned themselves with conservative politics.
You can also pay with cash in an envelope
I use Proton VPN only because I use Proton everything else. If not, I’d probably consider Mullvad. But I’m in the US and regional pricing doesn’t apply.
Same. Use Proton to get the suite of tools for 1 price. Mullvad if you just need a VPN.
Mullvad.
All you are to them is an account number. that’s it. no name, no email, nothing. you can even pay in cash. while mullvad’s GUI is still meh their CLI is top notch and very quick.
The main difference I see between the two is that Mullvad no longer offers port forwarding services and ProtonVPn does offer port forwarding services.
This can make a big difference based on your use-case scenarios. If you are gaming and need port forwarding or are torrenting and need port forwarding Protonvpn is the better choice.
“On 29 May 2023, Mullvad announced that they would be removing support for port forwarding, effective on 1 July 2023.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports
PIA is also a good option if port forwarding is important to you.
Heads up PIA got acquired by an ad company a bit ago
An ad company owned by an Israeli billionaire.
They still don’t have any history of providing logs to LE because they don’t keep logs.
What do the downvoters recommend if port forwarding is important?
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I used to have Mullvad and switched to Proton because I use pretty much their entire suite…
If you don’t need port forwarding, I think Mullvad is superior in everything. Such a great service, highly recommend it.
There’s Port Forwarding with Proton VPN too
Yes there’s port forwarding with proton, but not with mullvad they removed it.
Oooh, that’s sad I wanted to switch to Mullvad VPN in the future. For now I’m stuck with Proton since I use their entire setup. Well, mostly mail and VPN.
Can port-forwarding be useful for self-hosting? I haven’t tried using it wih Proton before.
I’m not sure. I mainly use it for downloading linux isos.
Mullvad. Excellent service, never had an issue. Used to use Proton, but their CEO sucks ass
I would recommend mullvad.
the ceo of proton did idicate support of the trump and the republican party and while they backtracked and apologized and all that, is it out that atleast some in the company think like that and i dont trust them anymore.
and trust is number 1 priority for vpn.
I use both (not suggesting that). I mostly use Proton because it’s already included in my plan, and they seem to have more connections to choose from, but I frequently have to switch because the one I’m on starts to get really slow. I like Mullvad’s flat pricing and lack of commitment (they even accept cash), and it was an easier setup on Linux (at least Arch).
Mullvad because it accepts cash payments.
Mullvad is more private but Proton VPN still supports port forwarding.
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That surprises me because I’ve been running Proton behind a Gluetun container for months without any issues.
Proton mail has an alias feature that I rather enjoy. Does anyone know an alternative service for that. I was looking to leave the proton ecosystem. Switching to mullvad is easy enough for vpn but im also looking at email etc.
i too miss the alias service, and i dont really know an alternative aswell.
The issue is kinda, that any alias service is basically just forwarding your mails … so it is really hard to trust anyone with that
and a private domain is not really a solution, for privacy
and like tuta does offer 15 or 30 (but 30 is super expensive) permanent aliases… which is like nice but does fill up super quickly if used like how it is used for proton
Proton mail
OP asked about VPNs.
Both options are good. I think for the most part it boils down to wanting a single product or suite of products.
While you certainly can get just one proton service, the idea of having an easy entry point into multiple privacy focused solutions is what they are going for.
The pro argument for that is cheaper overall, simpler to get into and mange, etc. The con argument is an eggs in one basket philosophy isn’t ideal because you can have a single point of failure. This is all subjective to your personal threat model.
I personally prefer the Mullvad client since, at least on MacOS, it allows you to exclude specific apps from the VPN, while the ProtonVPN client does not! I still use ProtonVPN instead though, since it’s also significantly cheaper for me.
