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Originally Posted by Mr K
I like Proton's free option. Free is a price I like and works fine even for steaming football games.
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Used their free email and other stuff for a while but I always have had some paid VPN to use beside ones I setup myself. Current subscription was ending so thought I would try ProtonVPN out and its actually really good.
Speeds are great even when using their CORE network across multiple countries even though I'm already bouncing through other boxes in other countries before I hit ProtonVPNs network anyway. Connections are super fast too.
They have done a lot of optimisations that other companies have not done or don't have the expertise to do. They have made OpenVPN multithreaded, do some latency tricks with shorter paths and tricks on their servers to move traffic around in a better way to avoid CPU bottlenecks and other stuff. All interesting stuff!
Even though their code is open source and audited it wouldn't surprise me if some time in the future a flaw is found in some of these optimisations like a race condition between threads leading to leakage or something but most people don't have a threat model that would make them be worried about such a thing.
If you are interested in VPN stuff, their accelerator information page is a short and not very detailed explanation of some of the stuff they do but worth a butchers.