Comment by MikusR

3 years ago

Pia has port forwarding and is half the price of mullvad

Many Mullvad customers migrated from there to Mullvad in the first place after Kape Tech bought them.

Kape Tech , at the time, had a less than stellar reputation. I haven't followed it much since that time.

Private Internet Access stopped releasing source code for recent versions of its clients.

Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35642700

These days, free and open source software clients are table stakes for a VPN to be considered trustworthy. The fact that PIA silently stopped releasing source code after previously promising to do so is a major red flag.