ProtonVPN is a Swiss-based VPN provider, which was created by CERN engineers in 2017, already the creator of Proton Mail, the best anonymous email service today.
Since its launch in the highly competitive VPN market, ProtonVPN has greatly evolved its infrastructure and currently has nearly 1,700 servers in over 60 countries all around the world.
Based in Switzerland, ProtonVPN benefits from a very strict privacy and data confidentiality legislation, far away from the jurisdiction of the European Union and the 5,9, and 14 eyes alliance.
Since our last test, the performance of ProtonVPN has significantly improved, thanks in particular to the support of the Wireguard Protocol, which provides a very decent speed and stability of connections.
Regarding the geographical restrictions blocking, ProtonVPN offers very good results with the ability to unblock major international streaming platforms such as Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, HBO …
ProtonVPN allows you to subscribe anonymously by offering the possibility to pay with Bitcoin or cash.
ProtonVPN has a free version, which is very limited, but has the merit of existing. This version has the same level of protection as the paid version and has nothing to do with the free VPNs full of all kinds of malware that are currently abounding.
ProtonVPN integrates several features, such as Secure Core technology (which passes your connection through several servers), Kill Switch, Split tunneling or servers specific to the Tor network or those optimized for torrenting.
Finally, for more transparency, ProtonVPN has accepted three independent audits of its installations and made its application code open source.