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

  • @gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•5 days ago

    Proton’s “paying subscribers” don’t really subsidise the CEO’s pay. They PAY it

    Yeah thats my point.

    If/when the number of paid users drop, what do you think the CEO will do? Take a pay cut himself? Raise prices? fire other employees? Or look for other ways to make money?

    • timepencil
      1•5 days ago

      @gmtom

      Maybe everyone at Proton might have to accept a paycut.
      Maybe Proton would have to raise prices in the long term, but offer discounts in the short term to bolster the paid subscriber base.

      But the ONE thing they can never do, is sell their member’s meta data, let alone their data. It would destroy their business model and the Proton Foundation, now the majority shareholder of Proton AG, is legally bound to never permit such a change.

      https://proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation