Since IVPN and Mullvad are both phasing out port forwarding, are there any alternatives? I am not looking for something like NordVPN which is a privacy nightmare. AirVPN is also not private enough considering I’ve seen reports online of ISPs sending out DMCA letters of gold to its users.
To add to that, email and vpn are different. It’s easy to force logging of a specific email address when forced to by law, but doing that based on vpn ip address only is more problematic
Can’t they just log your account? You have to have an account with Proton to use their VPN. They can absolutely log your activity such as logging in, when you connected/disconnected, to which servers, and, more importantly, where from exactly (your original IP address)
Proton doesn’t keep logs by default unless legally forced to.
Law enforcement would have to know the email account to make them log it. If they know the email account you’re using with ProtonVPN then thats user error and bad OpSec.
In the example you linked, if law enforcement didn’t know the guys email address then they couldn’t have forced Proton to log his IP.
Bad opsec? It’s a bad VPN if it needs an email at all. Look at what IVPN does, they don’t even have a requirement for emails to register. I’m pretty sure Mullvad just recently was raided by authorities seize whatever they want they said, won’t find any user data they said. And they didn’t. Also proton redirects or used to redirect from onion to clearnet when you signed in. It simply isn’t up to par with IVPN and Mullvad. What’s the point of a VPN where a government can just request them to leak your data? No matter how, AT ALL! What constitutes a big enough crime for them? What if next day it’s downloading Frozen II.mkv?
