What's the advantage of using the VPN via the browser extension instead of the VPN app (in my case, the MacOS app)?
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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VPN can sometimes be unreliable. I've gotten disconnected from zoom meetings when using the zoom app and a system wide VPN. Also have lagged during online gaming. The extension could be useful if you are only looking to increase web browsing privacy, while keeping a better network connection for other programs.
I'm liking that it auto connects on browser start up, to the same server I had last used. It was a pain on the Linux desktop client to always go searching for country, then my favourite server, to connect.
If Proton cared about privacy for VPN for clients, they would remove the login requirement and make ProtonVPN an anonymous services.
If there are concerns about abuse for the network, that's way the login, how could they figure that out without seeing people's traffic.
I use RiseupVPN and CalyxVPN for being open source and anonymous.
Until ProtonVPN removes login in their free client, it is not an option.
Counter argument, if your VPN is free, you're the product
Proton is open source
You are looking for Tor in those cases not a centralized VPN service. A centralized VPN service is good for reduced visibility with the understanding that they can be more easily compromised (the more you pay the more they can work to make that not the case).
That's nice but we are still waiting for the Proton Drive Client :(
There’s a lot of trust involved when using a VPN. Besides accessing things that are region blocked when you use a VPN you're basically say “Here VPN company, look at all the connection im making” and you just have to hope they’re not logging anything. They might even tell you they're not logging anything but how can you really know? And what is their intention is to not log anything but they fuck up and don’t implement that correctly?
It's great to be critical, but if at the end you throw up your arms and go without a VPN you're significantly less private.
You don't need to stop every single attack vector - not even browsing on Tails will do that. But to go with a good VPN provider who has a history of not handing over data when subpoenaed is good
Where can I find that good VPN provider? My ISP is "doing work" and that always makes me realize how vulnerable my household is to spying eyes.
I'd love to add a VPN to my home router (Opnsense) which continues to give me all the same features, no loss of speed, and complete privacy.
Ideas?
Pretty neat. Paid plans only, though.
I only use paid VPNs, but I generally want all traffic to go through them because it's hard to not have "random" stuff go out otherwise.