I fully understand. If you can't trust Proton then you don't _actually_ benefit from anything.

If it helps however, ProtonVPN is by the people behind ProtonMail, the security-first email provider. They started in CERN as a mission to provide email to scientists that wouldn't be subject to censorship.

Their entire business - email and VPN both - embodies the same philosophy that Mozilla does.

It's rare that I trust any company but Mozilla and ProtonMail are two of a _very_ short list.