Mullvad is a bit better if you’re hyper concerned about privacy but it doesn’t have port forwarding support so it’s worse for torrenting.

Mullvad is half the price if you want the flexibility of a monthly plan. I actually pay the same as a Proton customer but I think they either gave me a permanent loyalty discount or I’m on grandfathered monthly pricing because as a new customer you have to pay twice as much.

I have both and I use both.

The big benefit from mullvad is that you can get anonymous much easier, it’s easier to ditch an account and it’s harder for you to screw it up. People get mad about proton turning over metadata to authorities or suspending account access but they’re required to do that by law if they can identify the accounts. The structure of what proton offers requires that they have some way of verifying who a user is, so if you’re okay with being able to be identified if someone really tries (or doesn’t really try that hard if you give them payment information or something) then proton is fine for you.

Air is a good cheap vpn for piracy. If you wanna take the maybe smarter route of using separate services for your own privacy and for piracy that’s what I’d do.

Proton is way better for our use cases since it offers Port forwarding which Mullvad stopped supporting.

Mullvad has good marketing that’s why people think it’s more secure, in reality, both are almost the same in terms of privacy and security for your average joe.

I’ve found it glitchy. Have to restart it at least twice a day.

Any particular reason for moving from Mullvad?

I’ve been using ProtonVPN with port forwarding for quite a while now specifically on Linux by downloading Wireguard config and running it via terminal. Works great for my purposes.