We’re extending our discounts till the end of the year
Proton VPN’s year-end special offer is ending in 12 days: https://protonvpn.com/blackfriday.
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Sadly no benefits for existing loyal long time users 
VPN only
Is there any difference in the VPN between the Plus and Unlimited?
The 30 month VPN deal seems pretty great, especially if it renews after those 30 months at the same rate.
I’m trying to debate whether I need the rest of Proton’s offerings. The free tier seems pretty decent for personal use, tbh.
Though it might be nice to be able to use Proton as the backend for my own domain’s emails. Hmm.
Anyone else happy with just the VPN?
Proton’s service has deteriorated in the year or so I’ve had it. Servers are overloaded over wide swaths of the US. Connecting to “fastest” often hooks me to one that is overloaded. (The “fastest” algorithm is broken.) When a server I’m using becomes overloaded, Proton does not switch me to a faster one. It’s become tedious having page loads slow to a crawl or fail from this situation.
Given that, I wish Proton would devote a year or two to updating and enlarging its server farms and stop recruiting new customers until it has the servers to support them and the people who are already signed up.
When looking at the VPN Plus deals, what does LIFETIME DEAL mean exactly? It doesn’t really say anything meaningful in any of the text anywhere.
If price is your main criteria there are cheaper VPN providers out there. If you are looking for a company that is always innovating and enhancing their products, Proton is hard to beat. I’ve been a subscriber for around 4 years, and have been quite satisfied. Only once I can remember an issue that was a DoS attack affecting ProtonMail. If you look at the cost of VPN+Email+Drive+Calendar, the unlimited plan is well worth it, for me. Add in the level of security built into all the products, and it’s a no brainer.
10 euro per month? What a lie. It wasn’t so expensive before
Unlimited incluides VPN plus, Mail, Calendar & Drive. Plus just complete VPN access.
Full price ProtonVPN is one of the most expensive solutions on the market. I grabbed the deal at the start of the month. Just the VPN.
My personal use case is site-to-site VPN on gateway to provide all devices in the household both increased privacy and access to American OTT streaming services—YouTubeTV, HBOMax etc. I also use it on my mobile devices. No worries whatsoever.
I used to be a Proton Professional subscriber but last year started hosting my own emails on a cheap VPS and using Mullvad. While the savings were fantastic I was disappointed to eventually find out Mullvad isn’t compatible with some streaming services. Therefore I went back to the full price ProtonVPN a couple of months ago and waited for this sale. Depending on your use case for emails Proton Unlimited may be for you. But the moment you need more than 3 custom domains, I can confidently say cheaper solutions exist.
I thought you were talking about use cases that require bandwidth like downloading and streaming but you are talking about web pages that would load slowly to a crawl? Were you surfing through Core and/or TOR?
It means that you’ll keep the same pricing until you cancel the plan or change the billing cycle (i.e. introduce any modification to the current active premium plan).
My main criteria is privacy. Is there another Proton equivalent out there for less price?
It’s unfortunate, I paid regular price for a full year in the summer, it’d be cool if I can redeem a year code with the black friday discount to be use at a later date.
Where do you see 10 EUR?
If my use case is privacy focused only is Proton VPN my only reliable option? The other option is service in Canada which claims it’s not under US jurisdiction but how can you trust governments today that write their own rules? It’s still within 5 Eyes intelligence alliance. No way it is “untouchable”.
It always depends on many factors, also factors you cannot influence (e.g your routing), this isn‘t an objective opinion. You can also run several hundred Mbps on 100% load servers. A 100% load server still has plenty of capacities.
No, I am just using ordinary (paid) Proton VPN servers.