from the team:

Hi everyone,

As you may know, Proton VPN has repeatedly proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To make Proton VPN’s anti-censorship features even more accessible, we made it possible to log in to the Android app without creating an account. Now you can log in and use the Proton VPN Android app for free without entering any credentials (i.e. you can “continue as guest”):

Together with the constant expansion of our infrastructure (over 6000 servers in close to 100 countries), we believe that this will help our privacy-first VPN service reach those who need it the most more efficiently than ever.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1025·
    3 months ago

    Remember if a service is free then YOU are the product.

    Edit: 🤡: no you don’t understand I like this company, so there’s no way they would ever do something underhanded like literally every other company ever 🤡

    • Frank Ring@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      3 months ago

      Proton recently became a non-profit organisation.

      This commitment means that they work for the people.

          • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            3 months ago

            Comparing a completely offline software to a VPN that literally routes all your internet traffic through their own servers is completely apples to oranges.

            • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              Fair enough. My only gripe was with that umbrella statement. You are right that with these perpetually online SaaS companies, one must carefully assess their threat models

    • Tilgare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      I’m feeling a bit cynical about this as well, despite their great reputation. Free never really means free in 2024. There’s always a catch…