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Empowering you to choose a better internet where privacy is the default. Protect yourself online with Proton Mail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive. Proton Pass and SimpleLogin.

Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.

Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.

Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.

Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.

Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.

SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.

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

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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] 0 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Because nothing is free.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What they mean is normally when something isn't being paid for, you are the actual product. It's why people should never use free password managers, for instance.

Proton may be unique in that the free tier might actually be exactly what it says it is: A product for you. Not a product OF you.

I'm already interested. Anywhere I can get more information that is not on Proton's website?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

@Xanis @DesolateMood
Sure!

Tuta.com
Privacyguides.org
EFF.org

Additionally, Proton Pass and Bitwarden are both well respected, open source, password managers that are Freemium products.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!

I hesitate to look these things up myself because not only is it a heck of a rabbit hole, sometimes those holes are actually tricksty gophers. So I appreciate it. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

@Xanis You're welcome!

Both Proton Pass and Bitwarden are ad-free, secure, and very nearly have the full features of the paid versions.

For most users, the free versions are more than enough.

One limitation is that the free versions don't allow 2FA TOTPs to be generated. Personally, I'd never use that feature as it removes a barrier to being hacked *IF* the password manager was ever compromised. Instead, the use of a separate Authenticator app for those codes is probably safer!

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