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What VPN are you using? (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 months ago by helenslunch@feddit.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up.

I use Proton because it has a "suite" of products under a single subscription, but that benefit is losing it's allure as some of their products are pretty shitty from a user experience perspective, their customer support is atrocious, and they don't seem to pay any attention to what their users actually want.

Does anyone track known VPN servers? Is there a specific provider that causes less problems? Does anyone test different VPNs for detection?

Thinking about cancelling my subscription and moving to Mullvad.

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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mullvad, it has ipv6 and way better linux support than proton

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No port forwarding though :(

I used to use Mullvad but after they disabled port forwarding I switched over to Proton.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

AirVPN has port forwarding

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I used to be a Mullvad customer but switched to Proton because I use all the products on their suite. It makes financial sense to me.

Mullvad, however, has the best VPN experience ever. Faster, more stable and way less Captchas (though I'm not sure that's good?). Plus, I love their bullshit free pricing. It's 5 euros a month regardless if you buy 1 month or 2 years. Can't recommend it enough, even though I'm no longer a customer.

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I switched because I was moving away from the proton ecosystem lol. Their poor google-free android support for mail, and awful linux vpn support (they have a hard dependency on networkmanager, but I don't use NM, I use iwd) plus no ipv6 pushed me away

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yep, I know exactly what you mean. Lack of ipv6 is mind blowing, to be honest.