I love ProtonMail, Calendar and Drive services.
I want to try their VPN, but I can’t see why I would need it.
What do you use it for?
Thank you.
Oh that’s an easy question. Even if you are not terribly privacy-conscious (most people here are), you shouldn’t ever surf on a public Wi-Fi without a VPN. That’s a very strong use case.
To hide my activity from isp. To access content from other countries.
ProtonVPN runs 24/7 on my devices. I trust Proton more as my „virtual ISP“ than my normal ISP.
I work as a remote lawyer on my own practice. I do work in public Wi-Fi a lot. So the VPN Is always on
When i connect my device to public wifi ,and when i have to search more unknown site for any info.
To somewhat increase the difficulty of ad-trackers to build a profile of me. In combination with incognito browsing sessions, regularly closed out, and periodic resets of my “advertising ID.” I will choose what I am interested in, and I don’t want to get funneled down a rabbit hole based or prior searches. Plus it’s easier to ignore ads that have nothing to do with me. Especially if those ads are in a language I don’t even understand.
Nice try, CIA. Not gonna fall for it.
i use it to hide my ip from players who cheat on popular pc games
Mostly unblocking websites that are filtered by my ISP. My main OS is Linux and the current protonvpn app is not that reliable. Looks like they’re rewriting the app for all platforms. When protonvpn doesn’t work I use Cloudflare WARP. At least I can open blocked sites. WARP is for the times that I don’t care about my ISP.
I’m not going to lie. I use it to download… stuff…
Eventhough ProtonVPN sucks miserably but I’ve no other choice but to use it. Cause my Govt. & Govt’s counter intelligence is corrupted & they do surveillance.
Proton is a trusted company. A very well reputated top trusted company. They don’t store users ip, don’t keep users data log. But to debug a little bit of data is needed for every company but Proton doesn’t hand over any data to any Govt. unless their own Govt. pressure them to where their HQ situated at.
But it’s under EU. So, they have well respected privacy laws that everyone can trust.
The only thing I don’t like about protonvpn is; it’s actually suck. Slow speed, unstable connection, high ping, high server load, resource hungry vpn app & so on…
I use my VPN when browsing sites, like FB example and when I do my online… bank and when I surf Malwarebytes blocked a lot of malice websites I don’t use Torrent so I’m not to worried basically security purposes
I used it to ease up a little on my ISP horrible routing mostly. Our ISP routing is pretty bad and they are so greed that they got some website that don’t want to have server in their network to get throttled.
I used to selfhost my vpn myself but the server I used have some really bizzare amount of packet losses, especially for the one located about 50KM away from me, so I decided to pay a little extra and get proton. It does put more dent on my monthly allowance as a student, but it does give me less headache because I actually can get materials for my assignment faster.
Now, if protonvpn would open a server in my country (ID) with better routing to main IEX (in SG) that would be awesome ^^
To hide activities from ISP ,i think you also have to use private dns.
Btw,May be i am wrong.Still learning about these things.
Does it offer ad-free browsing for browser and in apps.? Came here searching for ad block advice. Very new to anything VPN related. Just switched to iOS from android and have had no luck so far finding ad blocking for mobile.
Are you on free or paid service?
Sounds like the world owes you something
It’s alright everyone starts somewhere. So to clear your doubt , no , private dns does not hide your online activity from isp. VPN or Tor is the only solution
The ad-blocking comes from my browser. I use Bromite, with incognito mode on by default, so every time I close out all my tabs, it flushes any tracking cookies. Proton doesn’t block ads within apps, but when they show up in Swedish, Portuguese, or Estonian because of the server location, they are much less distracting.