I have been using PIA for years and I was thinking of switching to Protons VPN (as well as storage, email and password manager) and I was wondering what everyone else thought of it. Is it as stable and useful as PIA?

PIA has proven in court that it doesn’t keep logs, but what about Proton?

  • KrombopulosMikl @lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    I use their stuff. I can’t complain about their vpn. I generally have it on in the background by default and I’ve rarely had issues with speed. And if a server is slow there are tons of others to select from.

    They claim they don’t keep logs and so far I haven’t had any reason to doubt that. This is their whole reason for being since the Snowden leaks.

    I also use their email, but it’s not my primary email. That’s mostly because of my setup. I really hate web based email so I always use an email client and they offer ProtonMail Bridge that makes it possible to use it inside an email client, but until recently I was running Linux. I think I got fed up with fucking around with Thunderbird and the bridge tool, but I gave up. Now I have a Mac and their tool works flawlessly, so I’m using the ProtonMail a little more.

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      1 year ago

      I will only be using email for…private matters. Not my new personal address. But thank you for the response and recommendation.

      • WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Only if your other contacts have proton as well then you are ok. If it is google and the likes then it isn’t that private…