From the Team:

Hi, everyone!

As our yearly blog roundup promised, we're bringing you last month's top new blog articles. January turned out to be quite news-heavy, with posts analyzing the relationship between big tech and privacy concerns being the most prominent.

🥶 Outlook is now Microsoft's new data-collection service - Microsoft informed its users that they share their data with 772 third parties.

💲 Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines - Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft) received about $3 billion in fines for breaking laws. We discuss whether these fines are big enough in the given context.

🧽 The worst privacy washing of 2023 and trends to expect in 2024 - The false advertising Big Tech companies use to trick people into thinking their products are private is becoming the #1 threat to privacy.

Regarding the more practical articles we publish, most of you have been interested in how to set up a private email server, while the most popular piece of Proton-related news has been the price change of Proton Pass.

We'll keep rounding up top blog articles each month for you to make sure you're all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here (we have an RSS feed, too), and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comment below.

From the team:

Hi everyone,

As a result of your valuable feedback, we've been working on making Proton Mail and Calendar easier to use on your desktop.

Today, we reached a significant milestone - the Proton Mail and Calendar desktop apps for Windows and macOS are now available in beta for all supporters on paid Proton plans. We're also working on the Linux app and will release it soon for testing.

Thanks to your initial feedback, we've added new features and bug fixes, including:

• 🗓 Easier access to Calendar via the app switcher on macOS

• 🚨 Notification badge for unread messages

• 🔤 Improved accessibility and font support

• ⏩ Easy Switch and Gmail sync can now be set up from within the app, allowing you to easily sync emails, contacts, and calendars from non-Proton accounts

• 💜 The option to set Proton Mail as your default email client on macOS

Download links and more info here: https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app

Let us know what you think; we look forward to your feedback!

Stay safe,

The Proton Team

Hi, everyone!

To properly bid farewell to 2023, we made a roundup of the most-read articles on our blog in case you missed them. As usual, the most popular articles were the most practical ones, helping readers understand the issues around online privacy, as well as dealing with common VPN use cases:

How to change your IP address on Windows?

Can my VPN see my internet activity?

Can someone see my internet history if we use the same WiFi?

Five best torrent clients for your privacy 2023

How to share a VPN connection on Windows and Linux?

In addition to these, you seem to have been really excited about the news surrounding Proton VPN, like the release of our browser extension, as well as the deep dives into global issues affecting privacy, such as the Great Firewall of China.

With this thread, we're starting a new series here on r/ProtonVPN - we'll round up top blog articles from the previous month for you to make sure you're all caught up on the latest news and tips. You can follow our blog here, and we welcome all your suggestions about what we should write about next! Let us know in the comment below!