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New user about to jump into Proton (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone,

I am very new and recently have decided to move away our growing home/work network away from Google and also increase our digital security. I got recommended to try Proton as it is (as I understand) a full suite of feature we would use (be it mail, productivity apps, vpn, authenticator, cloud) but seeing some of the reactions here, I am concerned.

Are there any really grave concerns about Proton or any substantial flaws I should be aware of as a new user? I also got some mixed reviews about unstable gaming sessions (that would be a home disaster for the kids hehe) as it disconnects but I suppose that is a problem of the free limited VPN connecting to free servers.

Thank you in advance for any input.

EDIT: Thank you again very much to all of you for your time and insight <3 I will investigate all the suggestions/experience and slowly work my way to a better workframe. Again - thank you!

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Testing is the best option and see what works best for you.

I torrent and have no issues seeding while using Mullvad. Maybe the seed takes longer, no sure, but it does happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for this piece of info. OK that's also confusing, from what I understood, seeding is not possible without port forwarding? I have to go and fact-check again about this. Maybe test both Mullvad and ProtonVPN for one month... If I do, I'll report with a post here.

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