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.
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
I use Mullvad and game. Split tunneling lets you bypass the VPN to game. Port forwarding is useful for torrenting. Probably a few other things too.
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.
When was that, apparently I missed that. Apparently a few people know about it because at least 3 people downvoted for it haha.
A quick search says November 2019.
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’ve been using them for years, it’s been good for all of my uses. Their prices are cheaper than what I see from other companies. I haven’t used their dedicated IP service yet, but if it is as decent as the rest of their services it should be good.