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This week we will be renewing the OpenVPN certificate on all our OpenVPN servers.
This will cause intermittent reconnects during early hours in each timezone. This is routine maintenance that we perform once per year.
They have also removed port forwarding from their VPN service recently, and they released a branded browser that’s kind of redundant (pretty close to Librewolf but with their VPN pre-installed)…
Neither of those is evil, but the first one has me reconsidering where I should be spending my VPN money.
The port forwarding did come to mind. It doesn’t really affect me and I understand the reasoning behind it. I don’t think they it was against their goals. I also appreciate they recently moved to entirely in-memory runtimes so nothing ever gets written to disk. Sometimes good with the bad.
I’d consider proton but all these companies are sus so I just bought time with mullvad.
If I use Proton’s VPN again, I’ll use it with a separate account from my mail. Proton payments operate on a weird hybrid of prepaid/postpaid where the company tries to charge you before you use the service, but if the charge doesn’t work they will lock your account (and any corresponding emails)… At least they did it for me lol