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 …

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 l…

[image] fria: You make an account, start using it Proton has a no-account guest mode for a few months now. [image] fria: Also there’s a paid version The only benefit of their paid Warp is supposedly better routing, by routing through other Cloudflare servers instead of the normal inte…

Both IVPN and Mullvad have 830 servers combined. Meanwhile, Proton alone has almost 7000 servers. They basically are big enough to be able to offer a good free tier. Proton wants privacy to be accessible to everyone. Turning a free customer into a paid customer is easier than turning a nonexistent …

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.

[image] We replaced VPN servers in India to keep your data private | Proton VPN Proton removes India-based VPN servers to protect privacy, but we continue to service our community in India.

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anon80779245 September 14, 2024, 7:05pm 11

@anon48875053 they do so with many many servers, not just India’s. But on VPN server list: Secure Proton VPN servers in 120+ 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.

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