Did you activate protonvpn killswitch ?

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That's some good sense advice indeed, thank you.

I will think it through

Glad you're not her then 👍

First thing I look at is location of HQ; from this depends how much privacy they can garantee. If it's in the US, that's an immediate nono.

I use Proton (Switzerland bases). Works great.