Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets

• DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not any authoritative recommendations. I’m at most a casual user of VPNs, and so long as I see the traffic getting encrypted, don’t think about it much more.

  I always hear Mullvad is great for maximizing privacy. Never tried them myself though.

  Personally, I use Proton. I was prepping to jump ship earlier this year, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worth it. I’ve had a pretty decent experience with them. The only issue was on on a Linux machine…Uh…and it was minor enough and long ago enough that I don’t even remember what it was?

  See above for my dissatisfying experience with Surf shark.

  I did try to sign up with ExpressVPN many years ago. They’re payment portal was busted (tried every day for a week, emailed support with no response).

  That about sums up my experience.

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• cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I suspect Mullvad would be a popular choice, but it’s quite a bit more expensive. As I rarely use VPN (I hardly every do anything where it’s necessary), I’m a bit on the stingy side personally.

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  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, I had a boss once who’s favorite saying was:

    “You don’t always get what you pay for But you never get what you don’t pay for”

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Generally with software I will only pay for things that I get full access to without paying for them. I guess I would render your boss somewhat confused.

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      • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, he took it also to mean payment in the philosophical sense. He was also fond of saying “you can pay with your wallet or you can pay with your clock”. He had some extension of that to the effect of its worse when you have to pay with both, but I forget the wording (it didn’t flow well).

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