ProtonVPN announced the addition of 8 new servers to a data center in Tallinn, Estonia — adding another secure and private option for users in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. The company now offers access to private Internet via 34 countries.
The new servers are available to users on one of ProtonVPN’s paid plans:
- EE#1-3 are available on our Basic plan
- EE#4-8 are available on our Plus and Visionary plans
ProtonVPN has a multi-tier offering, with the Plus plan being the one we’ve focused on in our review. Even better is its Visionary plan, but it comes with a premium.
In its blog post announcing the new servers, ProtonVPN quotes the 2017 Freedom on the Net report, which says that Estonia “has become a model for free and open Internet access” and “Estonians are very active on the Internet and issues of security, anonymity, privacy and citizens’ rights on the Internet are widely debated.”
To make for that much sweeter deal — as far as people of Estonia are concerned — the government has even established an online portal from where citizens can see the personal data that public authorities have access to. In that sense, ProtonVPN’s newly added servers will provide Estonians a way to access their local content while giving them the means to protect all their sensitive online data.
One of ProtonVPN’s cool features, called Secure Core, lets users further protect themselves online. It does that by routing the traffic through multiple hardened servers that are controlled and owned by ProtonVPN before it is forwarded to an exit server in the country of the user’s choice. By doing this, ProtonVPN effectively provides an extra layer of protection against advanced network attacks.
ProtonVPN works on various desktop and mobile devices — including those running Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, and iOS.
Pros
Cons
- Easy to use apps for popular platforms
- Works with Netflix and Hulu
- Dedicated servers for Tor and torrenting
- There's a free version of the service
- No live chat support
- Doesn't work well with BBC iPlayer