Richie Koch

Smart TVs are essentially televisions that can watch you. Their surge in popularity, along with smart speakers, means corporations (and anyone that can hack these devices) have another window through which they can view your private activity. The data collection that typifies the Internet is spilling over into your offline life — and invading your […]

A brand new version of ProtonVPN’s Android app is now available which includes OpenVPN support and better connection stability. If you are an Android ProtonVPN user, you can now choose between using IKEv2 or OpenVPN by installing the new 2.0 version of our app.  Most VPN providers only offer one major protocol, typically IKEv2 for […]

YouTube is a global platform that has over two billion unique users each month from all around the world. Unfortunately, this does not mean that everyone can access every video. Users trying to access videos face numerous restrictions. Depending on which country you are in, certain videos will be blocked, a process called geoblocking. Anyone […]

Moldova is the 43rd country to join the ProtonVPN network. These servers allow anyone in the world to browse the Internet with a Moldovan IP address and should improve latency for our users in Eastern Europe. We installed eight new VPN servers in a data center in Chisinau. They are available to users on one […]

Lithuania is the 42nd country, and the last member of the Baltic states, to have its own ProtonVPN servers. No matter where you are in Baltic region, you can securely and privately browse the Internet with a local IP address.  We installed eight new VPN servers in a data center in Siauliai. They are available […]

This post was updated on November 1, 2019. Fitness and health apps are designed to help you record and quantify how much you exercise, what prescription drugs you take, even what birth control methods you use. While these apps can help improve your health, they can also put your privacy at risk. In the worst […]

You can now securely browse the Internet using a Greek IP address, no matter where you are in the world. Greece is the 41st country to join the ProtonVPN network. These servers increase service and address latency for our users in Southern Europe. We installed eight new VPN servers in a data center in Athens. […]

We installed new servers in Serbia. You can now browse the Internet with a Serbian IP address, and users in the Balkans have another option to keep their online activity private and secure.   We installed eight new VPN servers in data centers in Belgrade. They are available to users on one of our paid plans. […]

Over the past two months we have expanded rapidly, adding 33 new servers and four new countries to our network. And that doesn’t include the servers we are testing in Taiwan or the ones we have replaced or upgraded. Today, we increase the pace again, installing 16 new servers: eight in Latvia and eight in […]