• JDubbleu@programming.devEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    I’ve had ProtonVPN for 3 years now and I have 0 complaints.

    It’s the only VPN I’ve ever used that doesn’t have less bandwidth on VPN than off. I regularly saturate my gigabit connection for hours at a time with 0 issues or throttling, and tunnel my torrent client’s traffic through it 24/7. It also allows me to watch 4k content on mobile data without throttling and circumvent my phone provider’s restrictions on hotspot/tethering that they want me to pay $30/month to remove.

    Best $5/month I’ve ever spent.

    • Tak@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I had no idea you could use a VPN to circumvent mobile data throttling. Fucking amazing info, mate.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 years ago

        If you can, it’s actually a bad thing because it means the Telco is violating net neutrality by picking and choosing certain traffic to zero-rate.

      • JDubbleu@programming.devEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Glad to help!

        The reason it works is because telecom providers use DNS-based throttling instead of deep packet inspection to selectively limit bandwidth to video sites. They have a massive list of all the popular streaming sites (YouTube, AppleTV, Netflix, etc.) and then throttle the sites in the list. When providers say “unlimited 480p video streaming” they actually have no clue what video quality you are watching. They just pick a bandwidth limitation that would only allow 480p video to play without buffering.

        They could in theory use network traffic analysis to identify video websites which have bursty bandwidth patterns (due to the nature of video buffers), but this would be more difficult, more expensive, and extremely prone to false positives.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      My complaint about ProtonVPN is they don’t support custom DNS in the apps. It would be nice to use NextDNS.

  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    Apparently you have to forward an email address to get the 1GB. I downloaded it and set it up. I was able to lie and say I moved the rest of the applications by just saying done.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using their Unlimited plan for over a year. ~$8 a month for half a TB of cloud storage, automatic photo backup on mobile, fantastic web email and mobile email client, and a great VPN that allows for port forwarding and P2P-optimized servers.

      Totally worth it for me. Great feature set, especially on their email. Everything runs smoothly on my systems. I run Linux on everything and their web client has always been really clean and responsive. Their mobile client too. I use GrapheneOS and haven’t noticed any issues with their email or VPN app so far.

      Made switching from Outlook & Gmail super easy. I don’t miss those trash services at all, especially not Outlook lol.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I used proton mail for a long time on a paid plan with a bunch of aliases, but dumped it eventually, now I just have a free email acct with them.

      I pay for their VPN.

      I dont use proton drive despite the cool name. 5gb isn’t enough for me to care, and I dont care enough to pay for cloud storage at this point in my life.

    • buffaloboobs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      idk, my $100/year for the email, 10 simultaneous vpns, and 510GB now 520GB of storage.

      but there’s probably other revenue sources other than my one annual plan 🤷