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Do you need an account to use Proton VPN?
If you download it from the FDroid store, yes. If you download it from the Google Play Store, no.
(I just tested this to make sure, because I know it sounds weird.)
so either way is Mullvad VPN much more privacy focused, because there you just generate a random number and to this number you deposit money, no need for any credentials.
why Proton??
ok so if you do it through google play it uses your google account I assume with like something like saml.
You do not
I was asking because I used Mullvad in the past and I love the fact that not even they know who you are because to them you are just a random generated number, which occasionally gets 5€ deposited.
You can use a free or paid account but some time last year (I think) they also made it so you can use it without even logging in (on android at least)
Yes but it is free (email address) with an acces to 5 countries (Netherlands, Romania, Japan and 2 others i never used). To extend it worldwide you have to subscribe to a premium account.
It`s 10 countries. USA, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Romana, Japan, Norway, and Singapore, though it connects randomly and you can't choose the IP