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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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Proton VPN now available without creating an account (Android) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't out be? Proton has always had a free tier, this just makes it easier for free users to connect to a vpn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because nothing is free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Proton's free plan is supported by people with paid plans

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

What they mean is normally when something isn't being paid for, you are the actual product. It's why people should never use free password managers, for instance.

Proton may be unique in that the free tier might actually be exactly what it says it is: A product for you. Not a product OF you.

I'm already interested. Anywhere I can get more information that is not on Proton's website?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, but the root of the question is whether this is sustainable, or will it get shittified, when "too many" people jumps on the free tier.

Will it get more expensive for the paid tier?
Are they going to get rid of the free tier?
???

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're transitioning to a non-profit organization now. While non-profits have their own problems, and it doesn't make them exempt from enshittifying, it removes the profit incentive to do so.

In other words: I'd give them a little more credibility when it comes to this sort of thing until they give us a reason not to. I'm hopeful that they can be a positive force in the industries that they are in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Same. I'm really rooting for them to stick it to the big internet usurpers. And they are doing a stellar job so far.

I'm just really can't get excited about companies offering free stuff, that costs money to run. Stepped on that rake one too many times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The free tier servers are finite resources and usually much more busy/ slow. Proton isn't guaranteeing fast speeds or availability, and all of their free offerings have always been done in a sustainable way.