this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
532 points (98.7% liked)

Proton

5329 readers
17 users here now

Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, I switched to them after mullvad (i I also tried airvpn before Proton) and it works great.

One extremely annoying thing with Proton VPN is that the port changes after every single (re)connection so you need to reconfigure your torrent client.

Fortunately there is a fork of the VPN client I use which automatically configures qbittorrent with the new port.

[–] Confused_Emus 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, slight inconvenience there, but like you point out there’s ways around it. In my docker setup, I’ve got a container that takes the random port from gluetun and drops it into qbittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On linux there's a bash script for port forwarding, and if you execute it right after reboot (preferably via cron) it'll be the same port as before reboot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Definitely gonna have to look into this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How come you switched to them from Mullvad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

They removed port forwarding.

[–] Sarothazrom 1 points 2 months ago

I have this problem as well, been joking to myself that it's "the price I pay" for using an otherwise fantastic VPN lol.