How does that get around paying? You don’t pay for the clients but their servers.

You can always uninstall and install an older apk.

Or just another user agent. Those things update so frequently, it’s likely just some analytics that checks user agent.

The biggest thing that did it for me was who runs Nord? Not business entities but the people.

Protons leadership is out in the open with their names (fwiw their CEO is even on the Higgs paper, lol), but Nord has a very intransparent structure.

How so?