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submitted 11 months ago by Shkshkshk@dice.camp to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven't gotten into proper #piracy is that I don't have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don't have a VPN is that I don't #torrent. So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while #degoogling myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don't hide what you're downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don't fully understand.

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[-] oscar@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What i found to work the best is to generate and download a config file, then import it into NetworkManager. There's a plugin for wireguard here: https://github.com/max-moser/network-manager-wireguard

This way, it's easy to add routes, autostart, etc. But I don't think a safe killswitch is possible.

Edit: But since this is a piracy community, i should mention that qbittorrent has a setting for specifying the network interface, so it's easy to force it to use the vpn connection only, in place of a killswitch.

[-] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 1 points 11 months ago

As far as I know, proton doesn't allow port forwarding, so makes using it for torrenting suboptimal. If you want to use torrents with a VPN, there's better options

[-] oscar@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

PF works with proton, I use it. But you have to continuously call it to stay open. (On linux)

[-] please_lemmy_out@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's a bit annoying and really should be built in to the CLI or GUI apps.

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