

First, servers are located in countries selected specifically for their strong privacy laws (Iceland, Switzerland, and Sweden). We have also gone to extraordinary lengths to defend our Secure Core servers. Proton VPN knows that for this feature to do its job, the “core” servers must be extremely well protected: Even if that hostile third party did manage to compromise the destination server, they could only trace your traffic back as far as the locations of the special servers, making it virtually impossible to break your privacy. When you turn Secure Core on, your VPN traffic passes through one of these special servers before going to the destination server. So it looks like this should be a decent VPN for Netflix, provided that it consistently works. Click the information icon to learn more about the streaming servers (and any other special server types) available in this country. If the country name has the icon of a globe next to it (see the image below) you are in good shape. To use Worldwide streaming, look for the country where the content you want is hosted. Proton VPN can unblock geo-protected streaming sites when you select one of their Worldwide Streaming server locations. Streaming content from sites around the world is one of the most popular uses of a VPN.

Hover the cursor over a server to see the Connect button appear for that server.

To the left of the name of each individual server is a ring that provides a graphic indication of how heavily loaded that server is. There is an information icon to the right (the letter ‘i' in a circle) that you can click to see the Proton VPN features provided by those servers. Note also that the country's list of servers tells you how many of each type of server is available. You can create a profile that contains the exact settings you need, or you can use one of the predefined profiles. And you can also select amongst the available options yourself.īut if you find yourself frequently making the same manual selections when you connect to Proton VPN, their VPN connection profiles might be the answer for you. You can connect to a ProtonVPN server by simply clicking the Quick Connect button, and let the app select the best country, VPN protocol, and type of server for you. Part of our testing process includes a DNS leak test to ensure that this important information doesn't get exposed to third parties. Leading VPNs provide their own encrypted DNS system to ensure that spys can't see those queries. Spying on your computer's DNS queries is a sneaky way to see what you are doing online. Your web browser makes a call to a DNS service to find out which IP address corresponds to each human-readable address you enter. While we identify websites with human readable names like, the computers on the internet identify themselves with IP addresses.
