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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1085092" data-attributes="member: 96560"><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/" target="_blank">ProtonMail deletes &#039;we don&#039;t log your IP&#039; boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thats bad. I&#039;ll keep that in mind.<a href="https://protonvpn.com/pricing" target="_blank">Pricing</a>&nbsp; . ProtonVPN is still Currently saying they don&#039;t keep logs for their free vpn service. You&#039;d think they would learn from their sister business and really keep no logs this time?I can&#039;t comment about whether ads are shown if using their vpn app - I am on Linux, and Gnome has openvpn built in, so naturally I went the app-free way and used their server definition config files. I don&#039;t want extra apps to broaden my attack surface.Since their ads are only trying to sell their for-pay services, that is understandable. They are not showing commercial ad&#039;s urging you to drink Coca-Cola. I wouldn&#039;t say that they have a business model that promotes things and then take them away. Moving around servers to a different cheaper country is just business optimization - you have to remember that the service is free, so they have to lower costs when there is opportunity to do so.Take advantage of their free servers by using workarounds like installing OpenVPN app for Windows. Maybe their free service will go away entirely later, who knows. But there exists a good thing while it lasts. If they are true to their original goal - provide security for all , then this free vpn service will stay.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1085092, member: 96560"] [URL='https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/']ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested[/URL] Thats bad. I'll keep that in mind. [URL='https://protonvpn.com/pricing']Pricing[/URL] . ProtonVPN is still Currently saying they don't keep logs for their free vpn service. You'd think they would learn from their sister business and really keep no logs this time? I can't comment about whether ads are shown if using their vpn app - I am on Linux, and Gnome has openvpn built in, so naturally I went the app-free way and used their server definition config files. I don't want extra apps to broaden my attack surface. Since their ads are only trying to sell their for-pay services, that is understandable. They are not showing commercial ad's urging you to drink Coca-Cola. I wouldn't say that they have a business model that promotes things and then take them away. Moving around servers to a different cheaper country is just business optimization - you have to remember that the service is free, so they have to lower costs when there is opportunity to do so. Take advantage of their free servers by using workarounds like installing OpenVPN app for Windows. Maybe their free service will go away entirely later, who knows. But there exists a good thing while it lasts. If they are true to their original goal - provide security for all , then this free vpn service will stay. [/QUOTE]

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