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Is ProtonVPN worth it? (dice.camp)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven't gotten into proper #piracy is that I don't have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don't have a VPN is that I don't #torrent. So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while #degoogling myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don't hide what you're downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don't fully understand.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

I don't know if this just got initially deleted or whatever, but I use wireguard with a "custom" plan on windscribe, and it's like $1/month. IPs are shared among hundreds of users and they keep no identifying logs.

I use a split tunnel on the vanilla wireguard client, so I'm not using anything from windscribe software-wise; and I set my torrent client to only use the ethernet device for the tunnel. So no need to worry about kill switches or leaking shit when the VPN drops.

Also -- I've tested the Wireguard connection on Windscribe and it easily handles 1gb upload/download.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago

    @thantik yeah that was me. I prefer to keep my Mastodon stuff and Lemmy stuff separate. What happened was that I initially posted this from Lemmy, realized I would rather post this from Mastodon, and deleted the first one so there wouldn't be duplicates. I wasn't trying to gaslight you and you didn't do anything wrong.

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