This unusual VPN has slashed its subscription price by 75% (aff)
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Scientists who met at CERN helped create it, and some of its servers sit on a former military base. But it’s the 75% discount that might first catch your attention
A VPN provider with an unusual approach to cyber security has just slashed its price by 75% - which it says its biggest deal of the year.
Swiss privacy company Proton VPN is offering 75% off its two-year subscription, bringing down the cost of a service with a rather unusual backstory.
Proton VPN’s apps are open-source, which means its code is publicly available for security specialists to examine, rather than customers simply having to take the company’s word for how its software works.
The company also has a policy of not keeping records of your browsing activity through its VPN - another feature many providers do not adopt.
If you’ve never used a VPN before, the basic idea is fairly straightforward. It creates an encrypted connection between your device and a VPN server, helping protect traffic travelling across the network and masking your usual IP address from the websites you visit.
For anyone in Ireland who regularly works on the move, travels abroad or connects to shared Wi-Fi, that could make a VPN subscription worth considering.
It won’t make you completely anonymous or protect you from every scam. You’ll still need sensible passwords and a healthy suspicion of unexpected messages asking for your bank details.
But Proton has a few extra features beyond the encrypted connection. One is NetShield, which helps block ads, trackers and known malicious domains. Another is Secure Core, which routes traffic through an additional server in a privacy-focused country before it reaches its final VPN destination.
Some of those servers are housed in an underground data centre in Sweden or on a former military base in Iceland.
Your everyday browsing probably isn’t quite that dramatic, but the infrastructure is certainly more interesting than the average subscription.
There’s unlimited bandwidth, too, without Proton imposing speed throttling. Actual speeds will still depend on your connection, the server you choose and other conditions.
Proton was founded in 2014 by scientists who met at CERN, the European research centre where the World Wide Web was invented. It started with Proton Mail before expanding into other privacy tools.
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