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You mean JavaScript; particularly, https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients.
Because they need to limit how many instances of the VPN you're concurrently accessing somehow.
To use a VPN, you by definition are giving someone your network traffic.
I'm not even touching this...
That would be meaningless. You login to a protonmail account, which you can create anonymously. The server code can also never be verified to be what's running on the servers.
Go for it.
You did a good job to rebutt everything I said, props!
I'm good with letting all of your counterpoints stand on their merits.
I still do wonder how Proton caught on over other encrypted emails and why American government has not gone after Proton like they did with Lavabit, which I did use and then one day all my emails don't exist anymore.
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Lavabit was formed and located in the US, while Protonmail was not. As a result, the US had jurisdiction over Lavabit, while it does not have the same level of jurisdiction over Protonmail.
That would explain it for Lavabit.
I don't put as much weight on European courts due to seeing how American corporations through American politicians can get Euroeans locked in European prison for years over torrent sitrs of American movies, surely they can force an email service to shutdown and make threats if Switzerland does not comply.
It's worth noting that Switzerland is not in the European Union, which is the entity that probably has jurisdiction over copyright in a lot of the cases you're describing.