You can also set up ProtonVPN on several models of router, to secure all traffic that passes through them. In terms of device support, you’re well covered: ProtonVPN has apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and AndroidTV, and runs on everything from an Amazon Fire Stick to a Chromebook, plus Playstation, Xbox, and Switch consoles. It includes the USA and Canada, much of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and many others, but as with any other VPN, if you’ve got a specific country that you need to use, just double-check it’s included before signing up. They’ve got 1900+ servers in 65+ countries, which is more than some of the competition and less than others. As far as I can tell, though, ProtonVPN seems legit. Frankly I don’t trust the majority of them, especially the suspiciously-cheap and entirely free ones that make their money by selling their customers’ personal information. I’ve used a lot of VPN services over the years and looked into many others.
These specify any legal requests that the company has had to respond to, which are few and far between: it can only respond to requests backed by a Swiss court order, the last of which was in 2019. Unlike some of the competition, it doesn’t operate out of tax havens or through opaque corporate structures, and it publishes annual transparency reports. Given the privacy-centric focus of the email product, creating a VPN seemed like a natural fit for the company, so that’s what it did. ProtonVPN was developed by the people behind ProtonMail, a well-respected email service run out of Switzerland. I also needed to consistently have a fast, reliable connection. Given that I’d be sending all of my data through these company’s servers, I needed to be able to trust that it would remain private and secure. There are loads of companies offering VPN services, but they’re not all created equal. The price has also dropped (which I discuss below), which made it a no-brainer for me to renew my subscription when it fell due.
I’d been happy with it as far as it went, and the paid versions offered features I’d actually use, so it seemed an obvious candidate for this trip.įeb 2023 update: It’s now over a year since I first started paying for ProtonVPN, and I still use it whenever I’m on the road and have zero qualms about continuing to recommend it. I’d been using ProtonVPN‘s free service now and then over the previous year, mostly when some badly-coded website forced me to pretend I was in the United States for a while. Planning a multi-month trip through countries that have, shall we say, a dubious record when it comes to internet surveillance and censorship, it felt like the perfect opportunity to do an extended review of a VPN service.
After an extended break from international travel for the last two years for, well, the same reason as everyone else, it was finally time to hit the road again.
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