A VPN deep-dive on Unrelenting #210 covered jurisdictions (NordVPN is based in Panama, outside the international copyright treaty, so DMCA takedowns reportedly go nowhere) and why double-hopping through two VPNs is actually easier to track than using one — it creates a second known ingress/egress point. But the real recommendation to come out of it was Proton. Darren uses Proton VPN specifically for its port forwarding, a feature most VPNs don’t offer, and has been on Proton Mail for two years, calling the easy custom email aliasing “the only way to fly”: a unique, disposable address for every site you sign up for, so one breach doesn’t expose your real inbox. The whole bundle — mail, VPN, storage — runs about $119/year.
Proton is currently running some Black Friday specials for VPN and Proton Mail for only $6.49 a month (billed at $77.88 for the first 12 months, then renews at $119.88 every 12 months.
[Unrelenting #210 1:10:33]
