no, i agree with you. it was just being facetious

i was assuming no logs policy being a given; without it, the VPN is worthless no matter how good privacy laws are in their jurisdiction.

they’re populists, and their policy is whatever gets them the most votes at the moment.

if you don’t give them any info then their jurisdiction doesn’t really matter. It might mean they’ll get shut down eventually, but it’s easy to move to a different VPN then.

price increase and yet still the cheapest i’ve seen for what they’re offering.

they’re efficient until not doing so majorly inconveniences you specifically

They are, they’re even indirectly admitting it.

(unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image)

meaning, management has signed off on this.

they are becoming european google, hence enshittification is upon us.

(unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image)

ie. management signed off on this, meaning it’s just PR damage control; no one is “breaking the silence”.

without all that data they would be in the negative.

that $220M is pennies compared to what they got from selling that data

proton has good connection that barely cuts out even on the free tier. moreso a problem when websites block you or get cloudflare challenge often, but that’s a problem with all commercial VPNs. i just switch the node then, usually works.

port forwarding on the commercial plan is neat too for me, because i am behind CGNAT.

We are on a privacy forum so i feel the need to say that VPNs are only good for privacy if your ISP is spying on you (or they’re forced to by law enforcement), not much else. IP is a very fragile fingerprinting metric, most people get dynamic IPs as the “default” option. You’re basically trusting a VPN company instead, they have access to the same info as your ISP would without one; Proton has been audited multiple times at least, so there’s more backing to that no log policy than [[insert ISP here]]

it’s not the best but basically anything is an upgrade over chrome