Military grade encryption
Also when it comes to data collection you just shift your trust from your ISP to the VPN company
VPNs are overrated.
@inference
If you live in a country like Russia or China, ISP is the least trustworthy entity. VPN company is at least in some developed country's jurisdiction and has zero obvious incentive to do DPI of all your traffic and report your actions directly to the KGB. They might not even know who you are. I can't say for Nord as I hate them, but for other reasons. With Proton you can pay in cash or these Beethoven thingies.
VPNs are still good in certain cases.
@dushman
If I had to I'd use mullvad or set up my own on a vps that doesn't require personal info
@dushman
Mullvad's also good, one of the best!
I chose Proton because I was using their free plan and when they had a sale I just went with them. They have some unique features like this one: https://protonvpn.com/blog/stealth-vpn-protocol/
I haven't inspected it properly yet, but it doesn't look like one of the "military grade" claims 😅
I do live in Russia, here most popular VPN services are blocked, but this Stealth protocol seems to work. Wireguard TCP also seems to work, WG UDP and OpenVPN are filtered.
@inference
@dushman
Yep, it's a well-known case. If you take a closer look at it, it's not that bad. They are required to retain the connection logs for e-mail to comply with the Swiss law and they've never claimed otherwise. For VPN connections on the other hand — they don't. That guy would be safe if he used some sort of VPN, even their free plan.
Of course no one can guarantee the won't just hand you out to Swiss police on receiving proper request, but this explaination does seem reasonable
@inference
