Proton and Cloudflare all offer a free unlimited VPN… why?
They aren’t as obviously suspicious as other free providers, what is the benefit to them? It surely isn’t cheap to do.
Others like AdGuard and Windscribe have a free tier, but they cap at 3GB and 10GB respectively.
Obviously others do it for the sheer data collection or other malicious purposes, but those above seem more reputable.
Proton is clearly to get you in the door. You make an account, start using it, and hey maybe you like the look of their paid features one day and decide to slip them some money.
Cloudflare I’m not sure but they have so much bandwidth available that running a VPN is nothing to them. Also they make lots of money from their other products so they wouldn’t need to sell your data. Also there’s a paid version as well so the proton theory also applies: get you in the door and then convince you to upgrade later.
Proton has a no-account guest mode for a few months now.
The only benefit of their paid Warp is supposedly better routing, by routing through other Cloudflare servers instead of the normal internet to a more geographically close place to the server you’re connecting to.
This sounds resonable bro
Also its a good way to drown traffic in a common IP address and be a needle in a needle stack
7000 servers are you sure ?
Because Proton aren’t very transparent in their counts, they claim to have server in x countries but in fact they don’t. They have servers serming to be in x countries,not actually have physical servers.
That’s a good thing, they allow you to have an Indian IP while not having a server there, if they did, they would be forced to log.
Good thing but they aren’t honest about it.
@Lukas they do so with many many servers, not just India’s. But on VPN server list: Secure Proton VPN servers in 110+ countries | Proton VPN they don’t indicate which servers are virtual and which are physical. Obviously you can guess, but I would like they tell us directly.
If I’m not wrong, in their desktop softwares, the countries with the globe icon are the virtual server ones (in which they call smart routing):
Smart Routing is a technology that allows us to offer VPN servers in countries we might not otherwise be able to due the sensitive nature of those locations. Instead of running servers physically inside those countries, we use servers that are, in reality, located elsewhere.
Actually they do have a list at What is Smart Routing? | Proton
