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Proton VPN's anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on Linux (www.techradar.com)
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[+] -6 points 3 months ago (16 children)

I’ll never trust Proton, not with all the “headlines” they can’t seem to stop making

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    I've not seen a single article about Proton that's made me abandon them. Diversified away from, yes, but not abandon.

    The privacy community will be under fire from very powerful interests, so I also take all criticism with a mountain of salt.

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Whatever your comfort level, I hope that turns out OK for you.

    I’m only using providers who have zero “nazi incidents”

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Which Proton incident(s) do you consider "nazi"?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    The ones that the Proton CEO knows about - he’s the one whose name keeps miraculously appearing next to “Trump” and “GOP.”

    I use providers who are not “nazi-adjacent”

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Would you mind pointing to a specific example? I know he praised a Trump appointee a while back, regarding approach to big tech. Was there another?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Out of curiosity which VPN do you recommend? I have Bazzite and it seemed like Proton was the best choice.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Proton is fine.

    The CEO has said some troubling things, but the products themselves are fine for now. It is one thing to be cautious, but it is a problem when you use the ramblings and comments of an executive as an excuse to ignore how the company actually operates.

    If it were like the MyPillow guy I could understand, but we are not there.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    not op but you should just self host. VPSs are cheap - entry tariffs are like 3-5$/month for most providers, and thats more than enough to set up a Wireguard or anything else, traffic limits are rarely an issue. if your hosting goes to shit, it's easy enough to recreate the config elsewhere

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    @aketawi whats with "selfhost" on vps? Still, you need to trust your vps provider... Also you need to manage it. I though selfhost is a term for selhosting files for example from your home server.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    not necessarily, you could Host anything by yourSelf on a rented VPS and it will still be "more selfhosted" than buying a commercial VPN. if you're buying just to use it as a proxy, trust is also a nonissue since your traffic will be encrypted anyhow and you store no sensitive data. just don't use a plain http proxy lol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    You are again tied up to the VPS provider in the same way you are tied up to you ISP so there's not going to be too much privacy there. A VPN like that is useful for using it for other purposes such as playing LAN games, placing your other hosted services behind it as an additional security measure or getting access to multiple servers that don't have public access (such as your home lab behind a NAT). But it doesn't annonymize you the way VPN providers "claim" they annonymize you.

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