Speaking of privacy-friendly countries, Switzerland, the location of ProtonVPN’s headquarters, has strong personal privacy laws. And on top of that, 95 of its servers are Secure Core servers, which means they only route traffic through privacy-friendly countries. Its servers have over 1 Gbps capacity, which means they are fast. But it’s not just about quantity with ProtonVPN. Typically, when it comes to VPNs, the more servers, the better, as your proximity to a server influences your internet speed.

Since its founding, ProtonVPN has grown to have more than 2,500 servers in 67 countries. That’s a cause we can get behind, as journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession. They created ProtonVPN “to better protect the activists and journalists” around the world. Proton Technologies AG, the parent company of ProtonVPN, came about after its founding members met at CERN.

How many VPN origin stories involve international nuclear physics research organizations? Well, we would guess only one. About ProtonVPN Selecting a Country Server in ProtonVPN

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