content: The good news is that this action shoots a hole in the theory that ProtonMail is comp'd. They wouldn't ban it if it wasn't effective.  "That's exactly what they want you to think."  🙄 It's not evidence one way or the other. Everyone with a three digit IQ uses a VPN anyway (or ideally a relay of VPNs / proxies), so this ban has no effect. The best thing is using no-name VPSes all over the world to host your own - VPN, Web-site, email server, etc, etc, etc.  Encrypted storage, variations in possible mail server configurations, deleting mail from the server as soon as you download it to your local encrypted system, and changing hosts makes it far more difficult for them to spy on your email. But nothing is 100%.