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Never heard of them, I’ll look into it - thanks.

Couldn’t tell you, sorry. They don’t support port forwarding but I’m not too sure on how that’d effect, say, torrenting.

Private Internet Access was acquired by some group which has snatched up a lot of VPN services, I find it all quite shady and would hazard against trusting them.

I’ve avoided Tuta for quite a while since I’ve never really liked how it operates. Unfortunately, when it comes to the degoogling coin, privacy spaces have often left Tuta and Proton on a pedestal, owing to their mission statements and ease of use for non-tech people. I’m always open to talking about better alternatives, but I put aside my grievances for the sake of keeping people away from the really bad actors in the email space.

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Felt like giving a little list off the top of my head instead of just going ‘use what I use!’

If you want any assistance, I’m always open to help out :)

Tuta seems to provide a very good service, but I personally just can’t justify going all-in on a provider which doesn’t use open standards. Encryption that essentially only works between Tuta inboxes just doesn’t promote an open ecosystem. Although, if that isn’t a concern, they are probably the best contender in a lot of respects.

IVPN is a well-established private VPN provider, with a strong track record.

Windscribe is also of note, being part of the cross-promotional circle of agreements with other established and trusted services such as Tuta, and Addy.io

Obscura is also worth a look for the especially privacy minded approach they take to running a VPN, essentially severing the entry and exit points of your network traffic across providers so that even if Obscura or their partners were to fail a user’s privacy, there wouldn’t be anything lost.

Mullvad is also a longstanding and respected VPN but I believe there’s been pretty severe controversy around them recently, and that should be looked into before considering them. They were essentially the gold-standard up until recently.

All of these providers have a variety of anonymous payment methods, to varying degrees of convinience and anonimity.

I have found that https://www.privacyguides.org/ is a decent directory of privacy-friendly services, with plenty of discussion on their forums. Additionally, Tuta’s DeGoogle List also lists some suggestions worth a look.

When looking for alternatives, take care to review that the provider has export options for all of their services before commiting in case you ever wish to move again. This is a problem I have found with Proton Drive, which makes it very easy to back up and import photos from your phone and other services, but lacks an export feature, requiring manually selecting and downloading each photo manually.

Anyone migrating from Proton should also consider emailing the board, as outlined by unionising Proton employees on https://molecule.build/.

I’ve always struggled while drafting how to reduce email fingerprinting. I know so few reliable alias providers, and many of those end up on blocklists. I’ve been considering a layered approach with a domain tied to my real life identity, and aliases for things not tied into my real self, but I’m not sure how to solve things satisfactorily.