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by AndrewConn 2750 days ago
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...

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