The world is changing. I’ve been a fan of privacy for well over a decade now. But thanks to the world embracing AI at a disturbing rate, we now have governments seeking to end privacy once and for all with pre-encryption scanning on the client (your) side. Also world-wide age verification. All under the guise of protecting children. When in fact we all know it is just governments spying on and wanting to control every citizen.
Part of the reason I left Windows for Linux long before Recall was implemented. I just don’t like the world interested in what content I check out. If I want to buy a movie on Fandango, I don’t want some data broker pushing ads based on the fact I was dupped into trying to watch Sucker Punch. (God awful movie 😣)
In my hunt to be left the hell alone, I started using a VPN. First was NordVPN. Then Private Internet Access. Then I found out recently that several VPN’s are owned by the same company and may actually be selling your data rather than protecting it by not only owning multiple VPN companies, but owning the independent company proving their no-log policies are legit. It could all just be a huge scam.
While I can’t fully say for sure, I am led to believe that Proton VPN is pretty much one of the few good options left that aren’t trying to screw you over.
Though this came with the need to tweak it.
Firstly the “VPN Accelerator” that promised 400% boost in speed seems to be a myth. For me personally and several YouTube reviewers. I do have it on, but doesn’t seem to do much.
Instead I did have to put in custom DNS servers as the default ones actually slowed everything down. Mostly because of Proton DNS offers a Net Shield that is supposed to block ads and trackers. I already have that on my Brave browser. So I used OpenDNS servers instead.
208.67.222.222 · 208.67.220.220
Doing this automatically disables the Net Shield. Though now I barely loose any of my gigabit internet service speed 😁
I also specified the server I’d like to connect to. The “fastest” option isn’t always the fastest. Not sure why that is, but whatever. I also like that I can finally use streaming services without too much hassle.
So, I am currently backing and promoting Proton VPN.
