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Used to use Mullvad but since their port forwarding fiasco I need to switch.
(I get that they had people abusing that system, but as a privacy based service they should expect the same pitfalls as every other privacy based service, like Tor, Matrix, etc. All you can really do is keep whacking the mole, or shut it down for everyone incl. the people using it for it's intended purpose too whom you had advertised port forwarding to, who wouldn't have bought your service if it didn't have port forwarding to begin with.)
So now I'm looking at IVPN or Proton. Does anyone have experience with IVPN or know how trustworthy they are? I'm wary on Proton after Protonmail gave that French activist's IP to their Feds, and they have a free tier which usually on a VPN means they sell your data, but afaik they are the only two that'll let me PF and I have a need, a need to seed.
IIRC free tier on ProtonVPN blocks whatever peer to peer traffic they can detect.
I wouldn't worry about privacy within the contents of the VPN though, as a lot of their services do require money so they should have quite a lot of funding through the paying users (like me.)
They do what they can to promote as much privacy as possible, but email really doesn't lend itself well to that just in general. I would always suggest accessing any clearnet site through a VPN or Tor if you do sensitive work online.