Is proton a honeypot? Has MLS encryption a backdoor?
Proton uses Cloudflare
The VPN traffic, which sees your real home IP (and packet size and timing), flows through Cloudflare to Proton.
This is an undeniable conflict of interest, because the websites you're hiding from are also on Cloudflare.

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Discussion
I do not know if it's a honeypot. But I disagree with their decisions.
MLS can't say. has a lot of eyes on it tho