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My experience with both is centered around torrenting:
Both PIA VPN and Proton VPN offer 'split tunneling' which I prefer to keep web traffic unprotected and faster. But the implementation is different.
- PIA VPN app somehow binds to the app .exe defined in the prevent/allow traffic list ensuring the app only uses the VPN tunnel, if no VPN connection is active, the app cannot connect. Contrast to Proton, you also have a list for the inclusion/exclusion into the tunnel, but if the VPN session is not active, the app could just use any default adapter/gateway (unprotected). This is a great feature in favor of PIA. Or workaround: some apps like qBittorrent allow the user to specify to bind to a Adapter (VPN).
- PIA VPN has a persistent "port forwarding" lease for a week or so. If you constantly disconnect/reconnect from the VPN server and use torrenting, this could be a good thing as you don't have to constantly update the port on torrent client. Or it could be bad, as your persistent port from PIA may leak a bit about your fingerprint.
- Both offer WireGuard.
Overall:
- PIA VPN app workflow, settings and usage is much easier to understand.
- Proton VPN offers more complex configurations, the connection profiles are messy and the entire UX is not very intuitive. Bigger learning curve.
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My experience with both is centered around torrenting:
Both PIA VPN and Proton VPN offer 'split tunneling' which I prefer to keep web traffic unprotected and faster. But the implementation is different.
- PIA VPN app somehow binds to the app .exe defined in the prevent/allow traffic list ensuring the app only uses the VPN tunnel, if no VPN connection is active, the app cannot connect. Contrast to Proton, you also have a list for the inclusion/exclusion into the tunnel, but if the VPN session is not active, the app could just use any default adapter/gateway (unprotected). This is a great feature in favor of PIA. Or workaround: some apps like qBittorrent allow the user to specify to bind to a Adapter (VPN).
- PIA VPN has a persistent "port forwarding" lease for a week or so. If you constantly disconnect/reconnect from the VPN server and use torrenting, this could be a good thing as you don't have to constantly update the port on torrent client. Or it could be bad, as your persistent port from PIA may leak a bit about your fingerprint.
- Both offer WireGuard.
Overall:
- PIA VPN app workflow, settings and usage is much easier to understand.
- Proton VPN offers more complex configurations, the connection profiles are messy and the entire UX is not very intuitive. Bigger learning curve.
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