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I know someone that signed up for an account with them, they froze it immediately for suspicious activity. He does nothing with that IP address, reads, social media, that's it. No way to get off the shit list without giving up personal information like a phone number and or alternate email and no guarentee that would fix it.
Their IP was on a blacklist from some shady company for some strange reason. But other companies let you write the company and plead your case, proton does not.
They further suspended a bunch of accounts based on some half baked unproven accusations by the government(s) if I recall.
They aren't trustworthy, they will give you up at the first sign of friction it appears.
That happened to me. I wasn't even on a VPN when I created my first and only Proton account, and within minutes they restricted it so I couldn't send any mail. They said I would have to upgrade to a paid account if I wanted to send mail.
I would never trust Proton after that. I'm just glad they immediately restricted my account instead of waiting until I'd switched everything over.
Check your ip against the lists of blacklists, there are sites that do it directly from the search page, there are a few dozen blacklists supposedly for spam and the like.
I suspect israel critics get dropped on them. A brazillian firm did the one we found.
Interesting theory and I've definitely made posts and comments critical of Israel. I've switched ISPs since creating that Proton account and I wonder if they'd restrict me again (not going to try though).