Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven’t gotten into proper #piracy is that I don’t have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don’t have a VPN is that I don’t #torrent. So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while #degoogling myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don’t hide what you’re downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don’t fully understand.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
      81·
      8 months ago

      They have servers specifically for port forwarding and P2P traffic

      Sadly with Mullvad closing port forwarding, they are one of the only ones you can torrent with. In all honesty, if it’s torrenting setting up a seedbox is really the way to go.

      • fanta69@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Air vpn too. I had a bit of back and forth swapping between proton and air vpn after Mullvad closing port forwarding. Protons spilt tunnelling is far better than air vpn, but their speeds were appalling so eventually I stuck with air vpn with a script to divert only the torrent traffic through the vpn. Man do I miss Mullvad!

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I’ve been enjoying the fact that airvpn let’s you open 5 ports, haven’t had any issues with them after my first few months.

      • nullboi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        I’m not the smartest bowl in the… bowl drawer, but wouldn’t removing port forwarding just affect speed? Or would it stop torentting with Mullvad entirely? I just topped my account off lol