Bypass censorship with Proton VPN

There is no such thing as 100% assured anonymity on the internet, but a VPN does greatly increase your anonymity. It prevents your ISP from seeing what you do online, and since repressive governments rely on ISPs to monitor their customers, it also prevents your government from knowing what you do online.

A VPN also prevents websites you visit from seeing your real IP address. This is the most important way websites can uniquely identify visitors. A VPN won’t block other tracking methods, such as cookies, but Proton VPN’s NetSheild Ad-blocker feature does block many tracking scripts.

Simply download our free app for your device and connect to one of our servers in any country that does not censor the internet. You will now be able to access the internet as though you were actually in that country, and your ISP won’t be able to see your activity.

Proton VPN offers advanced anti-censorship technologies such as alternative routing, Smart Protocol, and our unique Stealth VPN protocol to help ensure you can always connect to our server network, which operates in 65+ countries around the world.

Proton VPN uses only strong, cryptographically secure, VPN protocols to ensure your data is safe. We keep no logs or records of your browsing history whatsoever, and our ability to do this is uniquely protected by Swiss law.

Proton VPN’s unique Smart Protocol feature will automatically try multiple VPN protocols and ports to bypass attempts to block your connection. If you prefer to select the VPN protocol manually, OpenVPN in TCP mode is usually the best option as it makes VPN traffic look very similar to regular HTTPS traffic.

DNS translates the easy-to-remember URLs that people use to identify websites and other internet resources into the numerical IP addresses that computers really use to get you there. DNS, for example, translates the URL www.protonvpn.com into its corresponding IP address of 185.159.159.142.

Keeping logs of DNS translation is the main way that most ISPs keep tabs on what their customers do online. When using a Proton VPN, we do the DNS translation instead of your ISP. But unlike your ISP, we keep no logs.