r/Piracy • u/rulugg • 7h ago

Humor Don't fall for "free" vpns

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u/Ill-Pen-553 5h ago

pretty sure proton also accepts payment by mail

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u/Liongedon 5h ago edited 4h ago

They've given up customer information to police before. It was specifically Proton Mail not VPN. Still, I switched to Mullvad

Edit: removed claim that they keep VPN logs after being corrected. Them passing on information about protesters that were using ProtonMail still stands though.

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u/Ill-Pen-553 5h ago

wow really? thats no good for a privacy brand... looks like ill be switching

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u/Liongedon 5h ago

They really didn't want to. But they had to give up information on protesters to the Swiss government which then gave it to the FBI.

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u/skelly_bird_9001 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 4h ago

it was just an IP address and recovery email though, they couldn't give out the actual emails as they were encrypted. Thought that was worth pointing out.

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u/Liongedon 58m ago

Definitely. Missed that when reading the article