Didn’t even know they had a free tier until yesterday. Is it any good? I’ve been using it with no issue on low data situations.
Yes, I know about the original dev political issues.
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Since it’s free, huge number of people are using those servers. You will get a lot of captchas and many sites outright block all those IPs.
Trustworthy? I am okay with them, but if I need something more private I’d use Tor.
If you’re considering spending any money with them, I’d say go with Mullvad, since it would be cheaper. If you want all Proton’s services bundled, they can be good.
Mullvad is definitely the way to go for privacy. They don’t even require an email to sign up, just generate an account number and pay. You can literally mail them cash in an envelope if you want to be completley anonymous.
I heard good things about mullvad. I will get a paid version when I have more need for it. I had thought free versions didn’t exist previously . But I don’t trust it fully
If you’re into torrenting, paid Proton VPN is one of the best.
I used to be, I kind of do want to get back into it. I worry more about malware and viruses now though.
Well, not torrenting games and software and you’re pretty sure to stay virus free.
For games you’d have to find some uploader who you trust.
You will get some slow downs but it’s trustworthy
Mullvad servers are much more blacklisted than Proton’s
I am comparing Proton’s free servers and Mullvad’s paid servers. In my experience Proton’s free servers are blocked more.
Also, when paying, you get access to a lot more IPs, so you can keep trying. Whereas, free servers are very limited.
Compare paid proton with paid Mullvad, else it’s not fair
They run some very good deals on their paid service. On Black Friday last year I got two years of service for $75.
The do traffic analysis and will block you if you do something scummy.
Not that they shouldn’t. But keep in mind.
If they can still block you, how does anyone torrent?
On the free-tier torrenting is not allowed, on the payed vpn its ok
works fine but struggles where a lot of people are using it at the same time. IPs are often abused and require captcha for Google for example
No complaints, great product
Free VPN with political issues? What could go wrong?
Political issues with Proton are FUD
If you’re not the paying customer, you’re the product being sold
No. You really should apply context. This isa very clear example of a limited service that’s meant to convince you to buy the full offering.
Sometimes it’s free to make you lock into their ecosystem.
Once you have an account with them, there is less of a barrier to solve a problem you have by purchasing their service, especially when you feel like you got a lot of value for free from that company.
If you are a paying customer, it still doesn’t mean you are not being sold as a product to someone else. This saying is too commonly spread and it’s just a fallacy.
Also, there’s very simple and straightforward examples of how even if you aren’t a paying customer, you are not the product.
It’s a heavily limited free tier to promote their paid offering, in this case I don’t think that phrase is accurate.
