Proton is one of the few VPN providers to still have Russian endpoints. That makes ProtonVPN's privacy credentials a little less well proven than rivals who've been referenced in court or carried out independent audits, but nonetheless indicates a sound concern for user confidentiality. Further information on the case in question is not available. ProtonVPN reports that, earlier this year, a 'data request from a foreign country was approved by the Swiss court system' and that it informed the requesting party that it has no records of the IP addresses its users connect from. Note, though, that Switzerland provides some cooperation with the Five Eyes anglophone intelligence alliance, which may put off those with specific geopolitical concerns. Although Swiss law requires traditional ISPs to keep connection logs, that doesn't currently apply to VPN providers, allowing ProtonVPN to maintain a no-logging policy. It also maintains a legal transparency report, updated whenever it receives a legal information request. That includes a European Commission development grant, funding from Swiss startup incubator FONGIT (Fondation Genevoise pour l'Innovation Technologique) and the Swiss Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (Innosuisse). Proton Technologies is remarkably transparent about where its money comes from. Its Plus servers provide reliable access to US Netflix, but if you want access to European region-locked streaming services, you're largely out of luck.

With the exception of US services, ProtonVPN isn't great at region-shifting for streaming TV. We also noticed quite a lot of variability in performance between individual endpoints and ProtonVPN's free endpoints are typically slower due to high user demand.

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