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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Proton removed post on UserVoice calling for Andy Yen to step down (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Protonmail.uservoice.com is supposedly "The Voice of the Proton Community". Well last week I was tracking a post that was rising rapidly to the top-most voted in the "general ideas" category. And this morning when I went to check if it was at the top yet, it's just gone without a trace. No sign that it was ever there.

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[–] modeh@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So what is a good VPN alternative that also has decent performance? Where I live obfuscation methods are necessary and Proton's implementation of it seems to be the only reliable one where I am at. IVPN works but speeds are miserable unfortunately.

[–] viktorivpn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hey - can you tell me more about your setup and which servers you tested for speed & what are your expectations. we want to improve on this but conditions/location have a large effect on the outcome. all good if you want to keep all of this to yourself of course.

[–] modeh@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Tried the New York, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Argentina servers. Both in single and multihop configuration. Have it installed on both iOS and Android devices, and previously had it on my OpenWRT router prior to ISP blocking it.

Used to get 300Mbps a while ago but then one day I woke up and barely got 20Mbps, maybe 30Mbps on a good day. Not to mention obfuscation rarely works these days anymore. Was a happy ivpn customer for 3 years until I wasn't, at which point I made the switch to proton, and now this.

EDIT: want to add I have always had a 1gig connection if it matters at all