{"id":205262,"date":"2022-10-13T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T09:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=205262"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:23:31","slug":"proton-vpn-against-internet-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/proton-vpn-against-internet-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton VPN takes further steps against censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proton VPN is one of the apps that have been built out of the original privacy-first email service Proton Mail. Proton, the company behind the apps offers products that stick to some of the<strong> <\/strong>original<strong> ideas of freedom, openness, and ownership<\/strong> that fueled the early days of the internet before the major companies and platforms began harvesting all our data to sell to advertisers. As well as privacy, there are other notions from those early days that Proton seeks to protect such as being <strong>against censorship<\/strong>, which is the subject of a new update coming to Proton\u2019s VPN service. Here is what you need to know.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Proton VPN\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/19e2bf22-b404-4823-81a2-324969b98927\/2918716206\/proton-vpn-logo.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Proton VPN<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/proton-vpn.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/proton-vpn.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proton VPN has just<strong> announced a new VPN protocol called <\/strong>Stealth, which the company says will help to protect internet freedom by<strong> allowing users to bypass detection and therefore censorship attempts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/protonvpn.com\/blog\/stealth-vpn-protocol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog post<\/a> announcing the new feature, Proton describes how some authoritarian governments have moved to block their citizens from having access to privacy-protecting products like Proton Mail, saying that the VPN service has been developed to help users bypass those attempts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWith Proton VPN, people can bypass those blocks and continue using Proton Mail. Over the past few years, Proton VPN has become an essential tool, helping ensure the free flow of information for tens of millions of people during crises and wars around the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stealth builds onto this mission by adding <strong>an undetectable VPN protocol <\/strong>that is able to <strong>bypass most firewalls and VPN-blocking software<\/strong> to all Proton VPN plans. This means that <strong>even users of the Proton VPN Free Plan will be able to use Stealth <\/strong>to bypass even the most advanced attempts to censor their internet usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new feature is<strong> already available for Proton VPN users on Android, macOS, and iOS<\/strong>. However, there has been no mention of when it will land on Windows devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in internet privacy issues, you may be happy to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/android-13.en.softonic.com\/articles\/google-backtracking-on-android-privacy-mishap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google has recently backtracked on a privacy mishap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton VPN is one of the apps that have been built out of the original privacy-first email service Proton Mail. Proton, the company behind the apps offers products that stick to some of the original ideas of freedom, openness, and ownership that fueled the early days of the internet before the major companies and platforms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/proton-vpn-against-internet-censorship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proton VPN takes further steps against censorship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":205268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2517],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-205262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionproton-vpn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323045,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205262\/revisions\/323045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205262"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=205262"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=205262"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=205262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}