i originally bought the VPN to use Netflix over their VPN and it DID work for 2 weeks flawlessly. I have to be honest i purchased the 2nd highest plan from Proton (plus i believe it is) and was very happy with speed results obviously depending on the server. Transparency-wise Proton leaves a lot to be desired it seems - for the steep price they ask that's almost unacceptable. Had a short-term subscription with them, speed's were mostly fine but I didn't find a good reason to renew as their service is quite expensive, too.

As contributors to the 'open source community' as they proclaim I find it strange that they don't publish the source code of their own client that furthermore does not run on GNU/Linux.

The answer given in the link posted above is very disappointing and unconvincing in this regard. Whether it is challenging governments, educating the public, or training journalists, we have a long history of fighting for privacy online and contributing to the open source community. Our team has a long track record in security, having previously built ProtonMail - the world's largest encrypted email service. We are one of the only VPN companies that provide transparency so you know exactly who is running the service. So they say that they did not share Tesonet employees, and then they say that they did share a Tesonet employee, who even had full access to sign their applications, and if that was not enough, they did not even notice ('until recently') that the company they have nothing to do with, a company that is specialized in data mining and also controls NordVPN, signed their own application certificate? What else they do not know about their very own applications and partners? Back when he first joined us several years ago, we outsourced HR to a third party as it didn't make sense to incorporate a new company for just a single employee.Īs Algirdas was formally employed through Tesonet, he put Tesonet into the cert, and nobody noticed it until recently.' 'This is an unfortunate mistake made by Algirdas, our first (and amazing) Vilnius team member.

We don't share employees, infrastructure, etc' 'We used Tesonet as a local partner before we had an official Lithuanian subsidiary, and rented office space from them. To make things worse the replies by Proton are even internally inconsistent.

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