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by sascha_sl 2670 days ago
PIA's offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they're still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN).

Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.
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Havoc 2670 days ago
>Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.

You can dial PIA with a openvpn app of your choice

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rasengan 2670 days ago
There are new apps that are not based on chromium [1].

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/download

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sascha_sl 2669 days ago
Interesting point to pick from the ones I bought up. I guess that's an improvement.

Would you mind addressing the other one, particularly who from PIA this is?

https://www.reddit.com/user/common_sense7

Interestingly one of the comments seems to allege that's you. Hm.

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saosebastiao 2669 days ago
I just about dumped PIA for the same reason. Downloaded their newest update, and it is soooo much better.
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sascha_sl 2669 days ago
The stupid fight they had with ProtonVPN and NordVPN did it for me.

Reddit mods had to close some threads because the people copypasting PIAs (mostly baseless) allegations under every comment even slightly positive about either ProtonVPN or NordVPN were getting out of hand.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...

Here's the account that has done nothing but attack ProtonVPN https://www.reddit.com/user/common_sense7

Has a hint of Mafia to it.

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