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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[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago (13 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190318213020/https://cryptome.org/2015/11/protonmail-ddos.htm

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

This is a decontextualized post from 2015 that theorizes a DDoS attack on Proton at the time was coercion to "help" them by offering to proxy their traffic through Bynet in Israel for the purpose of tampering. Is there any other info out there to support this theory? It's intriguing and believable but also complete hearsay absent any other corroboration, context, further info, etc.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I don't trust proton. if you think you can trust proton, feel free to use them.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think you're picking up subtext in my comment that isn't actually there. If you don't have more info that's OK, I can do my own research.

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