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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 3 points 1 month ago

routing traffic through Israel is not fine.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Then don’t do that? You have your choice of servers.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago
[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 month ago

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

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

That didn't answer the question. You made an assertion, but haven't provided any evidence to support that claim.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did provide evidence. you're asking for more evidence.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

No, you provided a conspiracy theory that fit your explicit biases. If you had bothered to actually read the link you provided, you would know they didn't provide any evidence to support their claim that Israel is hacking Proton.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

the claim isn't that Israel is hacking proton. the claim is that proton routed traffic through an IDF affiliate.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Now the "Switzerland" based privacy firm is proxied by an Israeli firm for traffic analysis, network exploitation of users, cryptographic monkeying

It literally claims that the traffic was routed expressly for the purpose. You didn't read the article.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

I read it when it was published and stashed it for opportunities like this.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Then you didn't read it very good, if you not only missed the fact the article was alleging Proton was hacked by Israel, as well as believe it provides proof of that claim when it does not.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

the post is mostly verifiable information with two sentences of speculation that you seem to think is the crux of what I said, when, in fact, all I said is that routing traffic through Israel dimishes my trust in proton.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

So your position is that they did something you didn't like a decade ago, and so that makes them untrustworthy now?

At least you've admitted that your argument is nothing more than an opinion.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

trustworthiness is always a matter of opinion.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] Shadowfax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago
[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

It should be noted everywhere that this person posts this, that this is an allegation without any actual evidence to support it.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 month ago
[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

No, the post is a conspiracy theory that gives no evidence to support the claim. You can't use an allegation as evidence to support your allegation, that's circular logic.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 month ago

it's not circular logic. if you don't know, you can just not say things.

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's very good advice. The article you links specifically says "Allegedly" in the title. Let me save you the hassle of getting a dictionary and explain to you the definition of "allegedly":

used when something is said to be true but has not been proved [source]

The article not only does not provide proof, but it admits that it does not provide it. You, however, continue to insist it does because you want it to be true.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 month ago

I'm not willing to risk that it might be true

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Unless you’re an Israel citizen then why does it matter? Chances are you passed data through an Israel server at some point in time whether it be directly or not.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

it's one reason among many.

[-] dan00@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Omfg why even discussing andy pathetic bootlicking when this is a fucking cia honeypot… Their business plan was way too similar to google.

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