Proton VPN now available without creating an account (Android)
Proton VPN now available without creating an account (Android)
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
proton's having a full on glowup
Is that sustainable?
Proton has offered free plans for all its products for the last 10 years.
If it wasn't sustainable, I think we'd have noticed by now.
Well, userbases tend to grow.
If it wasn't sustainable, I think we'd have noticed by now.
Exactly the opposite.
Yes. Because they're either making a profit from your meta/data, or it's a promotion that ends as myriads of "free" services did before it
Proton has been offering free services for 10 years now. And they don't profit from your data, so your assertion is false.
Because they're either making a profit from your meta/data
They recently changed to a nonprofit, so that's not it
Nah, i used free tier for a year, realized I liked it and wanted to support them so signed up to the unlimited plan. Their hope is to draw more people in that way, rather than a paywall that turns off potential users
Based
Huge fan of Proton and their services. I use the VPN and two Proton email accounts. Very helpful, easy to use, and the free versions aren't horrible garbage.
How so? Like Mullvad does it?
It seems to be an alternative to the sign in option, so it doesn't seem like it.
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 🤡
This is not the case with Proton. Paid subscriptions effectively subsidize free users.
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...
Remember: You aren't paying for your lemmy.world account so you're totally a product!
Yep
LET'S GOOOOOOOO
Does Proton VPN not work in China? I’m trying to use it for the first time on iPhone, both directly and via my already-known-good VPN (Mullvad) but I can’t get the first connection to make an account started either way.
Is proton vpn working in china? Im travelling there soon.
Tldr, probably not. Proton has an article saying no, but that article is older than their new Stealth protocol which was built to work better in anti-vpn environments.
I would also read this article which has some information you may find useful.
Been to china, my advice is to amour up with a few vpn providers, and if you can get a sim card from Hong Kong, it gives full coverage in the mainland with western internet access
You guys rock - keep it up and I'll keep supporting
Another feature yet still no flatpak support
flatpak for something as low level as a VPN is just not a great use case. I say that as a huge proponent of flatpak.