I'd prefer to get a VPN to avoid the risk of my internet getting shut down, but I'm not aware of what the options for Linux are. I figured this would be a good place to ask.

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[–] bardmoss@linux.community 63 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The only VPNs which are not owned by marketing companies are Mullvad and Proton. The largest VPNs are owned by Kape Technologies, renamed because their prior company name distributed malware, whose top people are former Israeli military, so I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. I would never use a free VPN except for Proton, and Proton's paid VPN has a lot more nodes and features.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mozilla's VPN is just reselling Mullvad, so you can support Mozilla and use Mullvad at the same time if you like.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

That's good to know!

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want support Mozilla then go to their donation page and send them money directly

[–] Cuntessera@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

That only benefits the Mozilla Foundation and not the Cooperation who is responsible for developing Firefox. If you want your money to be used for Firefox, then you need to spending it towards the Cooperation AFAIK.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a Proton die hard but I hear their Linux VPN client is lacking. I use all of their products but not on Linux.

[–] bardmoss@linux.community 1 points 11 months ago

I have not had a problem using ProtonVPN on Linux.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago

You don't really need a client unless you want to do something fancy like port forwarding which they don't support anyway

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

I know this is an old comment I'm replying to, but what about AirVPN? They don't seem untrustworthy and/or a honeypot.

Are they? :/

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

well i sometimes use urban vpn, because it has Bulgarian servers

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Also lesser known PrivateVPN has no ties to marketing companies. Supports port forwarding, Wireguard, decent price, and is no log.

Been using them for years without complaints.