ProtonVPN or Mullvad? Why would you choose one over another?
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ProtonVPN or Mullvad? Why would you choose one over another?
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I’m thinking about paying for a VPN, I currently don’t use one.

I’d like to use Mullvad but they don’t seem to have regional prices, while Proton does.

I wonder if Proton is still a reliable option, Proton is 60% cheaper in my country, probably because regional pricing (but I didn’t check if it’s really the case).

If anyone has any other suggestion I’d like to hear it.

@utopiah@lemmy.ml
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people still believe that VPN is a safe option

What does that sentence even mean without context?

Safe against whom? I’m pretty convinced a VPN is safe against :

  • your boss or manager if you somehow browse on your corporate network
  • your flatmates or family member if you browse at home and do not necessary trust them or whomever setup the router
  • your school
  • the manager of the cafe you are using WiFi on

I’m pretty convinced might be safe against larger scale surveillance :

  • your ISP if it is not doing deep packet inspection (and that’s pretty much per country basis AFAICT)

I’m pretty convinced might NOT be safe against professional individual surveillance :

  • state level professionals using exploits and actually knowing your name, not your nickname
  • your VPN provider or the cloud provider you rely on to install the backend side of Wireguard or OpenVPN

So… no I don’t think anyone can make your VPN pointless. Clearly the random person sitting next to me in a cafe can not. Only few people with the technical expertise or power can do that. None of that matters though if you already volunteer your information elsewhere publicly on private platforms like Instagram or YouTube though.

Ardens
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You certainly are “pretty much”… :-)

So, what do you do, since you don’t trust your family? Seems pretty much suspect there… or pretty much paranoid.

You are not safe against any of those you mention. Don’t you know what VPN does, and does not?

You are pretty much NOT safe against large scale surveillance.

Thanks for backing me up, with the last thing you wrote. And then please go read up on what VPN actually does, and does not.

Eager Eagle
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alright then, keep your secrets

Ardens
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I always keep my secrets. :-)

I have also linked to a couple of articles that touch on what I’m talking about…

Eager Eagle
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You were given a list of scenarios above that list where vpns are useful. It seems you’re the one who don’t know what you’re talking about.

Ardens
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I was given a list where someone thought it would be useful… Now go read up on VPN, and you’ll see why that list was a “pretty much” wrong. ;-)

@chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I think you are the one thst does not get what it does.

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