if a VPN is right for your use case, ProtonVPN is the best possible solution if you want a moderate degree of herd anonymity from endpoints you visit. if you don't care about that, run your own VPN.
those are the only two answers. ProtonVPN is the only VPN company to own any of their own hardware (they own one physical data center in Switzerland). "SecureCore" = route through switzerland data center to destination country, also useful. CEO is a public figure. free service is surprisingly good. company is ideological.
could it all be fake? yes, but it is far less likely than any other company's VPN service to be. if there's one VPN in the world that would go lavabit, it'd be them.
as others have said vpnpro.com and any VPN review websites are all untrustworthy and paid off by VPN companies.
those are the only two answers. ProtonVPN is the only VPN company to own any of their own hardware (they own one physical data center in Switzerland). "SecureCore" = route through switzerland data center to destination country, also useful. CEO is a public figure. free service is surprisingly good. company is ideological.
could it all be fake? yes, but it is far less likely than any other company's VPN service to be. if there's one VPN in the world that would go lavabit, it'd be them.
as others have said vpnpro.com and any VPN review websites are all untrustworthy and paid off by VPN companies.