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submitted 1 year ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'll start off by saying everyone's economic situations are just as varied as their threat models and how people make decisions on which services can be specific to themself and not one that can apply to anyone else. The services one chooses to use for free or to pay for may be based more on what they can afford vs what's the best broad reaching plan.

That being said i'd like to see what others think about the proton suit of services. I've been eyeing it as an option for a paid service for a while but am hesitant to put all my eggs in one basket. I'm interested in a vpn, mullvad seems to be the other popular choice. I'm also interested in email address anonymizing service like anonaddy. At $5 for mullvad, $3 for anonaddy, and $3 for base proton email it comes out to a dollar more than protons premium tier which gets cheaper if you pay for 1 or 2 years at a time.

As said above would the biggest reason not to use proton for all of these separate services be not putting all your eggs in one basket?

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[-] tyrant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

For what is worth I haven't been able to get the storage sync to work, the VPN app isn't as simple/fast/as easy as mullvad, proton has little support for Linux. I use proton because it works with portmaster but I'm not a huge fan of it.

[-] Bermos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They offer OpenVPN profiles for their VPNs so you can use them on basically any platform where that's available.

[-] tuhriel@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

And even better: wireguard configs as well

[-] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Some third party tools you might find useful.

I do use rclone but I'm pretty happy with b2 storage. I did a small test with proton and it seemed to work.

https://rclone.org/protondrive/

VPN in docker with port forwarding. Didn't have any luck routing host traffic through it but I didn't dig too deep. Might be useful for a web based torrent docker container.

https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/providers/protonvpn.md

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