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Is ProtonVPN worth it?

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

If you are using Linux don't use the GUI app. It will lock up and leak past a killswitch.

The CLI app works ok. It annoyingly has issues reconnecting on reboot without disabling and renabling the killswitch. Sometimes it works, other times not.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't have to use any software from Proton VPN, they will allow you to download openvpn and wireguard config files so you can set up your own client. Takes some more effort to do it right, yes, but its a good option if you're up for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just make sure to either set the Wireguard profile's IPv6 to Link-Local or disable IPv6 on your network connection, otherwise you'll leak data and DNS entries over it. The reason is because Proton's wireguard implementation does not support ipv6 yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's good information. I already had a setup for openvpn, so I just plugged in their ovpn files and kept going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is how I do it, but since I use KDE I just loaded up the configure file in the connection settings and pasted in my password. Took about 10 seconds.

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