I believe I started using your services several years ago, and back then, you were, to put it mildly, unpopular among most users in Russia.
Now, due to constant blocking, users are forced to seek out new services that will give them access to blocked resources.
Over the past two months, I've seen mentions of your service more than 10 times in various major blogs that aren't related to digital technology at all. Although in previous years, I never encountered them, only when specifically searching on forums and in specialized communities.
And you'll likely become increasingly popular, as you have many competitive advantages.
It's also clear that as your popularity grows, you'll attract increased attention from Russia and other countries where restrictions exist.
In this regard, I'd like to ask if you're considering this? Are you planning to do anything about the increasing pressure from governments (for example, some European country)? For example, if they demand that hosting providers ban VPN hosting, as AEZA recently did. Are you considering such a scenario?
The current trend of restrictions in all countries is, on the one hand, beneficial to you, but on the other, the better you perform, the more users you'll have—and therefore, more government attention, pressure, and restrictions.
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We do very little adveristing and try to stay low most of the time. However, we cannot stop people from recommending our service :')
This is not something new for us and we have same challenges from other markets for example China. There is always backup plans that we can use if situation gets worse in X region.
We keep an eye on Europe laws and changes. All we can do is spread the information and fight against changes that can hurt out business or privacy in general.