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I started using ProtonVPN in the last few weeks. If you run Little Snitch, you can see they're sending data to Google Crashlytics. Doesn't inspire confidence. https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5ciujv55g7l2dj/ProtonVPN-Google-C...

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They confirmed this [0]. I don't like it, but I don't think it's the worst thing in the world if there's no user data being sent.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/a0qiuu/protonvpn...

In particular it's in the todo list to migrate to Sentry on premise.

Good to know - thanks! As a privacy company, it seems like a very odd decision by the ProtonVPN product team to use a Google service in the first place and have their brand anywhere close to Google... a company that is the exact opposite of privacy. Regardless, definitely glad they're fixing it.

I've heard good things about Mulvad but have yet to try it out. https://www.mullvad.net/en/

Nord was pretty good but I got rid of them when they removed the ability to see the distances to the servers in their app.

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