Thank you for tracking this and collecting the evidence.

If anyone was still hoping Proton might deal with this issue appropriately and move past it, there's the answer.

Abandon ship.

A similar one was closed with

Thank you for taking the time to share this. UserVoice is intended for feature requests about Proton's products, so this idea is being closed.

So where are we all going instead? I don't think mullvad is a viable alternative for much of the same reasons, and port forwarding is a non-negotiable to me. Everyone is saying they're going elsewhere but no one is saying where they're going.

Proton had a decently-managed reputation until there were just too many missteps to hide.

Even Andy Yen's praise of the entire Trump administration (including JD Vance by name) was swept under the rug, thanks in part to complicit moderators on Reddit's Privacy community

The company is sinking fast.