• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Payed for by subscriptions. Protons free offerings (namely, the VPN) are severely crippled. The free tier VPN is almost trial like to sell you on the full product. I also haven’t seen any of those youtuber sponsored -95% off deals other VPN providers have. Proton’s pricing isn’t exactly cheap which signals they do sell it at actual market rate instead of offering a cheap service which may or may not be subsidized by selling your data.

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      15 hours ago

      Nah, fair. Just based on the way Venezuelans described it to me, it seemed ubiquitous on the free end. I’m probably biased. I have no idea what their consumer demographics are, especially outside of the US.