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"publication_or_update_date": "2026-09-10" }, { "id": "s52", "title": "VPN Speed Tests: VPN Speeds Compared", "publisher_or_author": "Security.org", "url": "https://www.security.org/vpn/speed-test/", "source_type": "independent/testing", "supports": "relative speed", "access_date": "2026-09-11", "publication_or_update_date": "2026-09-10" }, { "id": "s53", "title": "Best VPNs for China", "publisher_or_author": "TechRadar", "url": "https://www.techradar.com/news/best-vpn-for-china-our-5-top-choices", "source_type": "independent/on-the-ground", "supports": "China reliability", "access_date": "2026-09-11", "publication_or_update_date": "2026-09-09" }, { "id": "s54", "title": "Apple App Store Proton VPN listing", "publisher_or_author": "Apple", "url": "https://apps.apple.com/la/app/proton-vpn-fast-secure/id1437005085", "source_type": "platform-store", "supports": "pricing, privacy labels, OS requirement", "access_date": "2026-09-11", "publication_or_update_date": "2026-09" }, { "id": "s55", "title": "ProtonVPN pricing snapshot", "publisher_or_author": "Verbraucherschutz.tv", "url": "https://verbraucherschutz.tv/verbraucherschutzpruefung/protonvpn/", "source_type": "independent/price-snapshot", "supports": "EUR pricing/renewal", "access_date": "2026-09-11", "publication_or_update_date": "2026-09-09" }, { "id": "s56", "title": "Sustaining Proton's mission over time", "publisher_or_author": "Proton", "url": "https://proton.me/blog/sustaining-mission-over-time", "source_type": "primary/company", "supports": "business model/infrastructure", "access_date": "2026-09-11", "publication_or_update_date": "2024" } ], "sections": [ { "title": "Síntese da avaliação", "content": "Proton VPN is a high-transparency, audited, open-source, feature-rich Swiss VPN with excellent current performance and one of the strongest mainstream privacy/security packages, but it is less identity-minimal than Mullvad and lacks production traffic-analysis/PQ defenses.", "source_path": "comparison_ready_summary.headline", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Perfis de utilização", "content": [ "privacy-conscious power users", "Linux users wanting an official GUI and CLI", "torrenting/P2P users who need port forwarding", "users wanting a trustworthy unlimited free tier", "users needing broad streaming/location support", "users who value public audits/open source/transparency", "users in moderately restrictive networks" ], "source_path": "comparison_ready_summary.best_for", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Quando pode não ser a melhor opção", "content": [ "users who want no conventional account/email identity surface at all", "users requiring DAITA-like traffic-analysis defenses", "users requiring production post-quantum VPN handshakes today", "users who insist on RAM-only/stateless server fleets", "users prioritizing the absolute lowest renewal price", "users who need the simplest/minimalist interface" ], "source_path": "comparison_ready_summary.less_ideal_for", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Pontos fortes identificados", "content": [ "Five consecutive annual server-side no-logs audits through 2026.", "All mature VPN client apps are open source, with active public repositories.", "Strong Swiss legal/privacy posture combined with unusually detailed transparency reporting.", "Very large global network and strong independent speed results.", "Secure Core multihop provides a meaningful hardened-entry architecture for higher-risk users.", "Port forwarding remains available and is unusually well supported across Windows/macOS/Linux.", "Excellent Linux trajectory: GUI, stable CLI, port forwarding, custom DNS, IPv6 and advanced server types.", "Strong anti-censorship stack: Stealth, Smart Protocol, alternative routing, guest mode, and Smart Routing.", "Permanent unlimited free tier without advertising.", "Cash and Bitcoin payment options.", "Own DNS resolvers and robust leak-protection design.", "Detailed incident postmortems and active bug bounty." ], "source_path": "strengths", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Limitações identificadas", "content": [ "Account-centric service: standard use generally requires a Proton account, unlike Mullvad's account-number-only model.", "Not all servers are demonstrably Proton-owned; ordinary exit-server ownership should not be overstated.", "No RAM-only/stateless server fleet; uses encrypted disks instead.", "No deployed DAITA-like traffic-shape defense against sophisticated traffic analysis.", "No deployed post-quantum VPN mode yet; currently roadmap/architecture groundwork only.", "Feature parity remains imperfect across operating systems, especially IPv6/protocol transitions.", "Free plan can be speed-restricted for excessive use despite 'no speed limits' marketing shorthand.", "Long-term subscription renewal pricing can be substantially higher than the introductory effective monthly price.", "Affiliate program creates an incentive conflict in much of the VPN-review ecosystem.", "Browser extension has a documented Firefox DNS caveat unless configured appropriately.", "Recent August 2026 outage highlighted a real resilience/failover weakness outside the tunnel dataplane." ], "source_path": "weaknesses", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Atualidade dos dados", "content": [ "VPN server counts and locations change frequently; the official server page showed 20,798 servers, 149 countries and 196 locations when researched.", "Prices are dynamic by currency, region, tax status, store, campaign, and subscription term.", "Proton is actively migrating its client protocol stack toward its Rust-based Proton Protocols/ProTUN architecture; protocol availability can change rapidly.", "IPv6 support remains in transition across platforms.", "Censorship performance is inherently volatile because governments and networks adapt blocking techniques." ], "source_path": "research_metadata.freshness_caveats", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Divergências nas fontes", "content": [ { "topic": "server ownership", "detail": "Some independent reviews describe Proton as owning/operating all servers. Proton's own privacy policy is narrower: it says Proton physically owns and operates all Secure Core servers and a majority of VPN servers in Switzerland and Germany. Proton separately says its entire VPN infrastructure runs on bare-metal servers. These are not equivalent claims.", "resolution": "Treat 'all servers are Proton-owned' as unverified/overstated. Treat 'all servers are bare metal' as a provider claim supported by Proton documentation." }, { "topic": "free-plan speed", "detail": "Proton markets the free plan as having no general speed limits, but its privacy policy reserves the right to restrict speed for excessive consumption. Tom's Guide observed a temporary drop to ~8 Mbps after repeated high-volume testing, consistent with possible fair-use throttling.", "resolution": "Record free tier as no fixed speed cap, with an excessive-use/fair-use exception." }, { "topic": "pricing", "detail": "Proton's public pricing page is heavily dynamic and did not expose current numeric values to the crawler. Independent checkout snapshots in September 2026 observed €9.99 monthly, €53.88 first-year, and €83.76 first-two-years for VPN Plus, while campaign pricing has varied.", "resolution": "Store the current observed figures with 'independent snapshot' provenance and warn that checkout is authoritative." } ], "source_path": "research_metadata.known_source_conflicts_or_tensions", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Testes de desempenho e respetivo contexto", "content": [ { "source": "Tom's Guide, 2026-04-27", "test": "10 Gbps testbed / WireGuard", "result": "Average ~1,475 Mbps; US-to-UK ~1,548 Mbps in their latest round.", "caveat": "Lab-specific and not representative of residential lines." }, { "source": "Security.org, 2026-09-10", "test": "Consumer broadband test", "result": "93.7→86.1 Mbps download (~8.18% reduction), 94.5→90.1 Mbps upload (~4.08% reduction), latency 3→78 ms.", "caveat": "Single methodology/location context; use directionally, not as universal performance." }, { "source": "Tom's Guide Proton Free, 2026-07-14", "test": "10 Gbps testbed", "result": "Free plan reached ~1,009 Mbps in normal runs but fell to ~8 Mbps after repeated heavy data use, later recovering.", "caveat": "Supports Proton's policy caveat that excessive free-server use can be speed-restricted." } ], "source_path": "performance.independent_tests", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "language": "en" }, { "title": "Pontuação e metodologia da avaliação", "content": { "scale": "0-10; subjective analyst scoring, not objective fact", "weights": { "privacy_and_logging": 0.2, "security_architecture": 0.15, "transparency_and_audits": 0.15, "network_and_performance": 0.12, "features": 0.1, "platform_support": 0.08, "censorship_resistance": 0.07, "torrenting_p2p": 0.05, "streaming": 0.03, "support": 0.03, "pricing_value": 0.02 }, "scores": { "privacy_and_logging": { "score": 9.2, "rationale": "Strong audited no-logs architecture and Swiss jurisdiction, offset slightly by account-level metadata/anti-abuse surfaces and account-centric identity model." }, "security_architecture": { "score": 9.0, "rationale": "Excellent protocols, Secure Core, bare-metal design, FDE and leak protections; 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Consulta as condições.", "help": "Tenta tornar o tráfego VPN menos reconhecível em redes que o bloqueiam.", "tone": "yes" } } }, "platform_support": { "number_of_simultaneous_devices": { "value": 10, "status": "deep_research", "source": "https://protonvpn.com/support/proton-vpn-plans", "source_file": "data_assess/proton_vpn_deep_research_2026-09-11.json", "source_path": "platforms.simultaneous_connections_paid", "checked_at": "2026-09-11", "note": "Avaliação aprofundada fornecida; não verificada de forma independente pelo comparavpn.pt.", "context": [ { "label": "Dispositivos no plano gratuito", "value": 1 } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s15", "title": "Proton VPN plans explained", "publisher_or_author": "Proton VPN", "url": "https://protonvpn.com/support/proton-vpn-plans", "source_type": "primary/support", "supports": "plan features", "access_date": "2026-09-11", "publication_or_update_date": null } ], "assessment_url": "/assessments/proton-vpn.json", "previous_value": { "value": 10, "status": "supplied_research", "source": "/research-summary.json", "source_file": "data2.json", "source_path": "primary_research_notes.Proton VPN", "checked_at": "2026-09-11", "note": "Informação importada da pesquisa fornecida. 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