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[–] NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Im pretty buggered here, there's no other VPN that does two things I need, per app routing and port forwarding. There's lots that do the former and a few that do the latter, Proton is the only one that does both.

Correct me if my information is out of date, please.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Private internet access.

Their image is weird because they have the less SEO friendly name ever and all their promotion is made with AI nowadays. It wasn't a few years back and they've been around for a while. But they do both per app routing and port forwarding.

Also, encryption, volatile storage, privacy conscious, a good server spread, etc.

[–] plant@lemmy.stinky.rip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PIA is developed and operated by Israeli devs fwiw [0]. They were acquired in 2019 and a lot of people cancelled/moved on then because Kape has a horrible reputation.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kape_Technologies

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Good to know. Had no idea.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I've been using them for almost a decade. They're cheap AF and serviceable.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Windscribe does port forwarding with a "pro" account. I'm not sure what per app routing is, is that more of a client capability?

[–] NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Split tunneling, I'd forgotten the name earlier. It basically means that you can say only x browser and/or y game uses the vpn while everything else just uses the Internet normally.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

Ah, yeah, that's a feature in the windscribe app.