Proton VPN Review
Community-sourced VPN review based on real Reddit & Twitter discussions
Proton VPN has a solid reputation as a privacy-focused VPN, and a lot of people like it because it feels trustworthy and reliable day to day. The free plan gets praised a lot as one of the better “act...
What the Community Says
Proton VPN has a solid reputation as a privacy-focused VPN, and a lot of people like it because it feels trustworthy and reliable day to day. The free plan gets praised a lot as one of the better “actually usable” free options, and the paid plan is often mentioned as a good pick if you care about things like no-logs, audits, and even anonymous payment options. It also comes up often alongside other privacy tools (like Proton Mail), which makes it appealing if you want everything under one roof.
The biggest complaint is speed: some people switch over from other VPNs and find Proton noticeably slower, especially depending on the server. A few also don’t love how certain torrenting setups work, since things like port forwarding can be a bit annoying to manage if the port changes when you reconnect. And while many trust Proton more than typical “affiliate-list” VPNs, there’s still a slice of people who are skeptical or just prefer competitors like Mullvad.
Strengths
- Strong privacy reputation
- Best-in-class free tier
- No-logs and audit-focused image
- Anonymous payment options
- Good reliability overall
Weaknesses
- Can be slower than competitors
- Port forwarding can be annoying for torrenting setups
- Auto-connect behavior can be frustrating
- Not everyone trusts it as much as top privacy rivals
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20 reviews"so yeah as other people are saying it depends, if it is a government or ISP Geo block a VPN will most likely bypass it, that is unless your ISP has blocked VPN port forwarding. Recommendations? i recommend ProtonVPN or Norton (Proton is the..."
"Proton VPN is good in free tier. You will not have any nice features like port forwarding, split tunneling or killswitch but it will work for web browsing and connecting to internet from a device. In my case on 800mbs I am getting about 720..."
"I've been using proton VPN for a bit now. It's very easy to set up and works pretty well. They also support port forwarding which not a lot of VPN providers do. "
"Proton if you need port forwarding, otherwise mullvad."
"Odd you should not have problems with proton, normally it would be some other , proton,nord, Mullvad, airvpn all work perfectly, you can actually host and build your own tracker. I used to over glutun with airvpn and didn't have any issue..."
"...ike Mullvad or IVPN you lose port forwarding however, this is a major reason for some people to use Proton VPN over them. If you are happy with Proton though there is no reason to switch, right now they are a privacy-friendly option."
"The closest I would say for that is mullvad, they're not five eyes, but they are in fourteen eyes since they're in Sweden. They don't keep logs, however, so that isn't as big of a concern. They're very vpn shaped, privacy forward, does ever..."
"switch to a VPN that port forwards. Proton, air, windscribe, PIA..."
"This is gunna be something you'll need to do some extensive research on, a reddit comment isn't going to be enough information to really set you up. But, some bullet points: These are going to be focusing on most to least important steps, ..."
"well first stop the sub to expressvpn, its junk lol and owned by israeli company you need a vpn that allows port forwarding, generally proton and airvpn are decent options for this."
"It did work when I was there in March. Mullvad barely worked, Astrill and Proton worked ok. That and port forwarding is why I switched from Mullvad to Proton for my other usage as well. I don’t know if it works right now, things may well..."
"@DrJosephChrist I still use Proton because it's cheaper and I need port forwarding. If I REALLY needed maximum security from state actors, I'd definitely go Mullvad, but I am a good boy.just trying to prevent the advertisement botnet from raping me."
"I've used ExpressVPN, NordVPN and most recently ProtonVPN (all paid tiers). I ended up sticking with Nord for a couple of reasons. 1. They seem to have less issues with blocks from Cloudflare. I often found ProtonVPN endpoints being blocked..."
"for what it's worth, Mullvad stopped support for port-forwarding, whereas Proton (to the best of my knowledge) still allows it"
"Yup. Been a customer since 2016. I have a Proton Visionary account and I use my VPN.ac as my VPN unless I'm torrenting (Proton has port forwarding) because so many sites/apps block Proton servers but hardly anybody blocks my VPN.ac besides ..."
"@Linkerman300 @x_is_pretty_dum @uwukko Mullvad doesn't support port forwarding and afaik you can send cash to proton anonymously so what makes mullvad better"
"1. Wireguard manual configs with adblocking like Mullvad and ProtonVPN does. 2. Port forwarding"
"What an obnoxious answer lol why would I ask chatgpt its garbage. Nordvpn works just fine. I know this because I used it before proton. They have dedicated p2p servers and you can download torrents without issue. The issue is lack of port..."
"Switching servers won’t be a problem just depends on your client. For example I use gluetun for qbittorrent. Proton picks a random port every time you connect to a server so you have to manually change the port in qbit every time it sta..."
"@StarkPrivacy @grok How come Mullvad can continue to operate as one of the best out there and how come many others have sold out, such as PIA or ProtonVPN. Who are some similar competitors to Mullvad but offer Port Forwarding for p2p?"