What determines whether Proton Unlimited is worth it? Proton Unlimited combines Proton’s premium email, VPN, password manager, cloud storage, calendar, and several newer services into a single subscription. On paper, it’s easy to understand: one account, one subscription, and access to Proton’s consumer privacy ecosystem. The harder question is whether that bundle actually represents good … Read more
Proton Unlimited is one subscription and one Proton Account, covering paid access to six core products (Mail, Calendar, VPN, Drive, Pass and Wallet) under a single billing relationship. Alongside that paid core sit names a subscriber will also encounter but doesn’t automatically get at a paid level: Docs and Sheets live inside Drive rather than … Read more
An independent technical audit, a 2021 Swiss court ruling, and one common claim about Proton’s servers that doesn’t hold up Proton VPN’s privacy claim rests on a distinction worth stating plainly at the outset. The company does not claim to make you anonymous. It claims that what you do after connecting is not retained in … Read more
Proton VPN is safe for most users, with material caveats for high-risk users. That is the direct answer. What follows is why. Under normal conditions, Proton VPN encrypts traffic, masks the user’s public IP address, and provides platform-specific controls designed to block traffic if the VPN connection drops. Those controls are well documented, but their … Read more
Proton’s ownership story looks simple. It isn’t. Proton VPN presents itself as part of a mission-driven alternative to venture-backed privacy companies. In 2024, Proton announced a share donation to Fondation Proton, a Swiss foundation registered the previous year, and described it as Proton AG’s “primary shareholder.” That phrase carries a lot of weight in Proton’s … Read more
There’s no single best Proton VPN alternative. The real first question is simpler: does Proton actually lack something you need? Proton isn’t one product. Proton Free is a genuine no-cost VPN tier. VPN Plus is the paid layer, with ten simultaneous connections and port forwarding built in. Broader Proton subscriptions (Mail, Pass, Drive) sit alongside … Read more
Trust can be earned in more than one way Most VPN companies ask you to trust them. NordVPN and Mullvad both do something more interesting. They ask you to trust entirely different systems. NordVPN believes trust should be earned through evidence. Repeated independent audits. Independent security assessments. Public transparency. Continuous investment in infrastructure designed to … Read more
Most VPN comparisons assume these companies are moving in different directions Most comparisons between NordVPN and ExpressVPN are written as though they’re trying to become fundamentally different companies. Look closely at the direction both companies have travelled over the past decade and a different picture begins to emerge. Both built independently verified VPN infrastructure. Both … Read more
Buying a VPN means trusting a company Most comparisons between NordVPN and Proton VPN eventually arrive at the same conclusion. NordVPN is presented as the commercial giant. Proton is presented as the privacy-first alternative. There’s some truth in that description, but it doesn’t really explain why these companies continue making different decisions or why many … Read more
For readers who mainly want the core VPN, NordVPN is easiest to justify at the introductory price. It gets harder to justify as you move up the tier structure, because the products bundled into Plus, Complete and Prime only add meaningful value if you actually use them. And it gets harder again at renewal, when … Read more