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Looking for a good alternative to ProtonVPN (feddit.online)
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In the wake of the Proton controversy, I've been looking towards alternatives towards their services. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a good alternative to ProtonVPN. I'm looking for the following in a VPN service:

  • Port forwarding support
  • Open source
  • Android app and Firefox extension available
  • Relatively cheap, around $3-4 month (okay with annual pricing)

The only options I found were Private Internet Access and Windscribe, but I found issues with them. If I'm cutting ties with Proton based on ideals I disagree with, I should be rejecting alternatives on the same basis.

Based on what I saw in the PIA subreddit, Private Internet Access seems to have some issues with service reliability and concerns about its ownership having ties to Israel, implying Zionist affiliation. Windscribe seems to have better service, but they have had a questionable social media history: edgy marketing including an AI-generated Hitler and a controversy where, according to them, they joked about a guy being mentally ill but their post easily looked like they were saying trans people are mentally ill.

Is there an option I missed? Should I try one of these options despite their faults? I'd like to know your thoughts.

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[–] 1 point 4 hours ago

As mentioned in a sibling comment, afaik all WARP traffic would be associated with your Cloudflare account. So the Oracle VPS doesn't matter anymore.

And again, if both Cloudflare and Oracle are selling data to the same company (like Google), Google can reconstruct the entire path of your traffic, and your privacy is now reduced to the same as somebody who isn't using any proxies at all.

A VPN relies on trust. As of now there's no getting around that. So the question is, is ProtonVPN/Mullvad/iVPN more trustworthy than Cloudflare and Oracle? I'd bet most privacy experts would say yes.

my ISP from home blocks certain websites

From the beginning this was about privacy. That's what the readers of your first comment would expect. I am simply explaining why replacing ProtonVPN with an Oracle VPS is a downgrade.

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