CERN and MIT scientists have developed a new product in response to the administration’s rollback of Obama-era Internet privacy laws. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in the beta experiment by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official ProtonVPN site. The great thing about it is that it has a free service that’s free forever. It might not be as sturdy as the paid ones, but it still routes your connection through various encrypted tunnels in three countries.
By offering free tiers, the company can reach more people, especially now that there’s a lot more concern in using VPN all over the world. In the US, the new FCC chair and various Senators want to kill net neutrality in addition to revoking rules that protect user data. UK Prime Minister Theresa May wants to control the internet. People in China, Egypt and other places where the internet is heavily censored also need VPNs to get around limitations, while others need the service to keep their info secure and private.
If you decide to branch with ProtoMail’s service as your primary VPN provider after using it for a while, you can always decide to pay later to help the company continue offering its free services. ProtonMail says it relies on user upgrades to keep the company going, because (in its own fighting words) it doesn’t “abuse user privacy to sell advertisements” like “Google and Facebook.”
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