I have been using PIA for years and I was thinking of switching to Protons VPN (as well as storage, email and password manager) and I was wondering what everyone else thought of it. Is it as stable and useful as PIA?
PIA has proven in court that it doesn’t keep logs, but what about Proton?
I’m on ProtonVPN for a couple of years now. In the beginning the Linux client was a bit of a pain, but they also let you download OpenVPN and WireGuard config files. By now the VPN client works fine, also has a permanent kill switch, the only think lacking behind on the Linux client are profiles.
Other than that their services work really good, I have no performance issues and nothing really to complain about.
I use their stuff. I can’t complain about their vpn. I generally have it on in the background by default and I’ve rarely had issues with speed. And if a server is slow there are tons of others to select from.
They claim they don’t keep logs and so far I haven’t had any reason to doubt that. This is their whole reason for being since the Snowden leaks.
I also use their email, but it’s not my primary email. That’s mostly because of my setup. I really hate web based email so I always use an email client and they offer ProtonMail Bridge that makes it possible to use it inside an email client, but until recently I was running Linux. I think I got fed up with fucking around with Thunderbird and the bridge tool, but I gave up. Now I have a Mac and their tool works flawlessly, so I’m using the ProtonMail a little more.
