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Proton VPN now available without creating an account (Android) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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from the team:

Hi everyone,

As you may know, Proton VPN has repeatedly proven effective anti-censorship tools, allowing people to find trustworthy news sources and access obstructed content.

To make Proton VPN’s anti-censorship features even more accessible, we made it possible to log in to the Android app without creating an account. Now you can log in and use the Proton VPN Android app for free without entering any credentials (i.e. you can “continue as guest”):

Together with the constant expansion of our infrastructure (over 6000 servers in close to 100 countries), we believe that this will help our privacy-first VPN service reach those who need it the most more efficiently than ever.

Thank you for your support,

The Proton Team

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[-] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago

proton's having a full on glowup

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Is that sustainable?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Why wouldn't out be? Proton has always had a free tier, this just makes it easier for free users to connect to a vpn

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Because nothing is free.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Proton's free plan is supported by people with paid plans

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, but the root of the question is whether this is sustainable, or will it get shittified, when "too many" people jumps on the free tier.

Will it get more expensive for the paid tier?
Are they going to get rid of the free tier?
???

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

The free tier servers are finite resources and usually much more busy/ slow. Proton isn't guaranteeing fast speeds or availability, and all of their free offerings have always been done in a sustainable way.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

They're transitioning to a non-profit organization now. While non-profits have their own problems, and it doesn't make them exempt from enshittifying, it removes the profit incentive to do so.

In other words: I'd give them a little more credibility when it comes to this sort of thing until they give us a reason not to. I'm hopeful that they can be a positive force in the industries that they are in.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Proton has offered free plans for all its products for the last 10 years.

If it wasn't sustainable, I think we'd have noticed by now.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, userbases tend to grow.

If it wasn't sustainable, I think we'd have noticed by now.

Exactly the opposite.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Huge fan of Proton and their services. I use the VPN and two Proton email accounts. Very helpful, easy to use, and the free versions aren't horrible garbage.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Based

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

How so? Like Mullvad does it?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

How do you use Mullvad without an account?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

You use an account but it’s virtually anonymous. You can buy a sort of prepaid card that you activate. You never have to give personal information.

That’s different than what Proton is doing which is to connect you to their free tier without any authentication.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

You basically get a prepaid number that you can use as an identifier for the clients and what you pay for to charge time onto it. Said number is valid for I think 5 devices and can be charged through various ways - you can even send them cash via mail.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is just "install and use for free without any login of code". Basically free tier without user.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It seems to be an alternative to the sign in option, so it doesn't seem like it.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

LET'S GOOOOOOOO

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

That's awesome!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I really love all of the proton products...

Except their VPN. I'm sorry, but their servers trip CAPTCHAs and cloud flare warnings more than 95% of the time for me no matter where I connect from. I really wish it wasn't like that because it makes the Internet fucking awful to use

Mullvad will just keep getting my 5/month on top of my proton sub, I guess...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Does Proton VPN not work in China? I’m trying to use it for the first time on iPhone, both directly and via my already-known-good VPN (Mullvad) but I can’t get the first connection to make an account started either way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You need to go to settings and under protocol select stealth. The other connection types are blocked in China.

Mullvad doesn't work here at all.

The most widespread one is Astrill, though it's quite pricey. Used to be the only one that works consistently; but Proton is a decent alternative.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, thank you for the info! I can’t get to settings though as I can’t get past the account setup stage, I’ll try to sign up on desktop.

For your trivia, Mullvad works great for me in China, better than Astrill these days. I use and test multiple just to know and have backups.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Proton Desktop is not linked to your phone in any way, so enabling stealth there doesn't have any impact on your device unfortunately.

Interesting to hear about Mullvad, maybe they did change the protocol around! My backup had always been Windscribe, they give you 10 GB traffic for free, but the reliability in China went downhill over the last year.

But my days are numbered now anyway, will be out end of July, and still got Astrill prepaid until November or so, so not going to experiment too much now.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is proton vpn working in china? Im travelling there soon.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Tldr, probably not. Proton has an article saying no, but that article is older than their new Stealth protocol which was built to work better in anti-vpn environments.

I would also read this article which has some information you may find useful.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You guys rock - keep it up and I'll keep supporting

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