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It’s weird that they consider Proton VPN their only real competitor.

Have they had a look at Mullvad VPN?

Mullvad has done a lot for privacy as a VPN service, including but far from limited to:

https://mullvad.net/blog/2019/6/3/system-transparency-future...

https://mullvad.net/blog/2022/1/12/diskless-infrastructure-b...

https://mullvad.net/blog/2022/5/3/we-now-accept-monero/

https://mullvad.net/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-our-...

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The sentence you must be referring to reads "Proton VPN is realistically our only true rival in the Free VPN space", which is a pretty careful scoping that means Mullvad--which explicitly offers no free service--isn't relevant for the statement.

That makes sense. I misread it somehow and didn’t make the connection of having a free of charge tier.

Not only are they talking about the free VPN space -- as the other comment mentioned -- but they also make a lot of jokes about ProtonVPN. I'm not the most informed about their community's inside jokes, but I think this is one of them.

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