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Together with our community of translators, we’re excited to announce that you can now use Proton VPN in Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Portuguese. As part of our mission to make privacy tools accessible to everyone, we’re working to deliver Proton apps to more people in their native language. You can start using these […]

We’re happy to be the first VPN provider to open source apps on all platforms (Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS) and undergo an independent security audit. Transparency, ethics, and security are at the core of the Internet we want to build and the reason why we built Proton VPN in the first place. We launched […]

Following months of inaction from Vodafone, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media, we are making a public appeal to them to lift their block on our VPN services or face a formal complaint to Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator. These Internet service providers (ISPs) have blocked the Proton VPN website since early August, even though the British […]

Update Nov. 30, 2019: Because Proton VPN only offers discounts once per year, we have decided to extend our Black Friday promotion until 11:59 PM on Dec. 8, 2019, San Francisco. (That’s 2:59 AM Dec. 9 in New York and 8:59 AM Dec. 9 in Geneva, Switzerland.) This extension will give anyone who wasn’t able […]

Switzerland has taken a liberal approach to copyright law, allowing citizens to use copyrighted material for personal use. This has made peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing sites popular in Switzerland. It has also attracted intense opposition from the film and music industries, as well as the US trade representative to Switzerland. They have encouraged Swiss authorities to […]

Proton VPN now offers more stable and reliable connections for Android users through the OpenVPN protocol. Members of the Proton VPN Beta Program can now switch to OpenVPN on our Android app. We are one of the few VPN services to give our users the choice between IKEv2/IPSec and OpenVPN on Android devices. By adding […]

Our last server poll was such a success that we are holding another! This is your chance to decide where we should place our new VPN servers. It has been almost a year since we held our last server poll, in which nearly 13,000 of you told us which countries to install Proton VPN servers […]

We have compiled a full list of reviews of Proton VPN’s paid VPN plans. All of these reviews came from independent review sites. This post was updated on June 8, 2021. Proton VPN has received significant interest (and several awards) from technical professionals for our secure and private VPN service. We have collected a number […]

The VPN industry is notorious for unscrupulous or even malicious players, so it’s reasonable to ask why Proton VPN can be trusted. Here are some qualities that set us apart from other VPN providers. In 2017, Proton Mail entered the VPN space with the launch of Proton VPN. We decided to launch a free VPN […]