[nucatus]

I use ProtonVPN and I guess they aren't that stupid to mess up the future of their company by abusing the customers of the service that started the company in the first place. I guess other VPN services offered by prestigious companies, like BitDefender are quite safe from this standpoint. Yes, the free VPN services have always a large risk associated with.

[RektBoy]

Proton is operated by US agencies, CIA did that in the past with cypher machines.

[iakov]

This is a very bold claim. Do you have reliable sources to back it?

[cookiengineer]

He's probably talking about Crypto AG [1]

Not sure about the links to Proton though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

[bartbutler]

There aren't any links between Proton and Crypto AG, none at all.

[nerdbert]

It's not necessarily a problem to use a service, (Signal?), which is funded by an intelligence agency. It can serve their purposes while serving yours too. If the service gets wide enough adoption, then the huge volume of traffic becomes a perfect place to hide their own intelligence activity.

[The_SamminAter]

Do you have any sources/links?