https://protonvpn.com/blog/no-logs-audit
Independent security experts verified that ProtonVPN does not log user data or engage in any practices that might compromise your privacy.
Just a note to add, this is just the re-confirmation of this year, the two previous years they have had no-logs policy audits as well :)
Same. I don't even use it for torrenting. Been using it more and more just for simply browsing the web.
Proton’s great for torrenting since they support port forwarding for their paid tiers.
Yeah, I switched to them after mullvad (i I also tried airvpn before Proton) and it works great.
One extremely annoying thing with Proton VPN is that the port changes after every single (re)connection so you need to reconfigure your torrent client.
Fortunately there is a fork of the VPN client I use which automatically configures qbittorrent with the new port.
Yeah, slight inconvenience there, but like you point out there’s ways around it. In my docker setup, I’ve got a container that takes the random port from gluetun and drops it into qbittorrent.
On linux there's a bash script for port forwarding, and if you execute it right after reboot (preferably via cron) it'll be the same port as before reboot.
I have this problem as well, been joking to myself that it's "the price I pay" for using an otherwise fantastic VPN lol.
Oh do they now ..? How much are they? My PIA will be expiring next year and I'm not liking for they're shying away from port forwarding (especially on the android tv app)
I feel like they're going to pu$$y out and pull a Mullvad soon.
They pulled port forwarding support so now they're useless for torrents
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/
Ah. OK thanks. Usenet is way better than torrents imo so I haven’t needed a vpn in over a decade.
not to criticize proton's product, but trying to act like you're doing something special by buying audits when that's what any recognized and reputable VPN brand does makes you look like noobs
talk about your servers, speed, support, etc-- that's what sets you apart from competitors
edit: lol wouldn't have pegged this crowd for a sensitive bunch. my mistake, carry on trumpeting your audits lol
If they didn’t publish these people would be going “there are no public audits we can’t trust them.“ I don’t even understand the complaint here. We’re now complaining about transparency?
Edit: if they talked about their speeds and other benefits then everyone would be going “this is just an unrelated advertisement riding on the back an audit“
talk about your servers, speed, support, etc-- that's what sets you apart from competitors
All of that can easily be judged by any customers. The no-logging part can't be checked by regular customers
Also that’s what their ads are for… And their website… And every other published piece about them. Why on earth would they put that here?
They don't act special, they act in an open and respectful manner towards their customers.
what any recognized and reputable VPN brand does
And what makes a VPN brand recognizable and reputable if nobody knows that they passed the audit?
edit: lol wouldn't have pegged this crowd for a sensitive bunch. my mistake, carry on trumpeting your audits lol
This isn't about 'trumpeting audits' or 'being sensitive' or brand loyalty or whatever. Your comment just comes across as either wilfully ignorant, or contrarian. Audits and sharing those audits like this are essential for transparancy and building trustworthiness, especially when it comes to security and privacy. If a VPN would say 'no logs' but never proves it with transparent audits, they're untrustworthy. Simple as that. This serves as proof they don't log.
I don't see Proton acting special here. Just a report and why it's important. And they do share all the other stuff you've mentioned, so I'm not sure why you seem to ignore that.
Sidenote, if it matters: while I am a Proton customer, I don't use ProtonVPN
Lol what? The most "well known" get that way thru insane advertising campaigns not because their products are any better or more secure than say mullvad or, in this case, proton.
If I'm getting more / less the same performance between the more reputable companies I'm going to chose the few that have these types of audits.
I need to make the switch, I've just been complacent. My statement also wasn't a knock on Proton's speed, as I have no idea how it performs, I just wanted to point out that no logging is more important than performance, if there needed to be a sacrifice.
Soooo I don't use a VPN. I know quite a bit about computers and technology in general, security in this sense just hasn't been as important to me until recent years. Them having no logs is important to me, just as the other metrics have their own levels of importance. Moreover, just because you're only capable of a single bland line of thought at a time doesn't mean others can't express several, more complex forms of thought at once...such as talking about everything you mentioned, and more.
To me, a consumer they are targeting, this is important. The more I hear about things like this from them, the more I am legitimately considering utilizing their services.
“Trust me bro, I ain’t keeping logs.”
Vs
“You don’t need to trust us, we don’t want you to trust us when we say ‘we don’t keep logs’. We have an unbiased and unconflicted third-party audit our service every year. You can review their findings for yourself here.”
Trust me, bro.
How would you like a company to prove that their claims have substance? Just curious. Audits are just a way to do this. Imperfect, perhaps, but one of the few available.
They have tons of servers worldwide for varying use cases, the speed is great, and I've never had to contact support.
I think a good sense of criticism is always good. And I don't like loyalty, ever. But, no matter where you go, there will be a rule of thumb that people will blindly follow. None of this will make me likable though because of the lack of trust I show them with everything.
rule of thumb that people will blindly follow.
i'm over 40 and am still confounded by this. brand loyalty always struck me as the dumbest possible behavior from people whose only value to the brand is in their wallet. i guess it's easy to believe the company really truly cares about you when that's what they pretend to do
You're getting downvoted because you're conflating contrarianism with critical thinking, and people have already pointed out your mistaken logic.
It has nothing to do with brand loyalty. You're just falling into the other side of the "herd mentality" coin.
one hilarious thing i've learned is that any particular brand's fanbois hate being called fanbois LOL
you do you. but i abandon brands the instant they start enshittification. which they ALWAYS DO.
fanbois have a tendency to get butthurt and talk about "logic" if you poopooh their favorite brand names.
bring on the downvotes. they have a ways to go to catch up to the upvotes on my comment shitting on republicans
You guys are sniffing your own farts so hard you forgot that it sounds stupid when you say a company is pretending when they paid for a 3rd party to verify them with cold hard cash.
There are very few of us, and it's probably a DNA/brain wiring thing. Kinda like me looking at republican as if they are aliens because they can watch trump and think what he's saying is good, and totally not like a dictator such as hitler.
right. the party of "individual liberty" and "small government" who also wants the government to mandate what gender you're allowed to bump uglies with and outlaw porn