I wouldn't know, I've had a paid proton account for a long time now

When? Never, because this is overwhelmingly likely to be propaganda to manufacture consent for another war.

Remember 20 years ago when they said Iran was only a few days away from being a nuclear armed power? or when they said that same thing 30 years ago?

They keep trying to make everyone terrified of russia and china and keep talking like they want to kill everyone else on earth.

CNN was one of the outlets that said "WMDs in Iraq!" for my entire childhood and most of my teenage years. That alone should be enough to never trust them again.

you might've been able to avoid this by choosing a different folder for it to sync to on your re-install

With mullvad, proton or iVPN, just enable lockdown mode or what proton calls the "permanent" kill switch.

That should block all unprotected traffic with no issue

Edit, I used policy plus to delay my quality updates by 30 days and my feature updates by 365 days and a couple of days ago I paused my windows updates because I saw britec09 talking about how some of the more recent updates to windows 11 will cause bluescreens sometimes. So I'm not affected.

It's not. Use signal messenger or session messenger instead.

You got rid of all the options for quick connect profiles.

You also got rid of the ability to connect to a random server.

being able to connect to a random location adds another layer to any anonymity you might want.

Proton or Mullvad, whatever works better for you

Yes, but telling you how I do it would be bad opsec.

well they blocked every porn site in india for a different but equally stupid reason.

Proton isn’t science

Cryptography and software development is science.

remind me again how digital IDs are going to make us safer when every company with people's personal details is constantly getting hacked?

proton's hide-my-emails are disposable, but regular proton mail addresses aren't disposable.