PIA's various clients are all on GitHub (opens in new tab), including its Android and iOS apps, Windows and macOS/Linux GUI and command-line desktop clients, Firefox and Chrome/Chromium browser extensions and various tools. The U.S.-based Private Internet Access (PIA) started doing so in mid-2018. The Switzerland-based ProtonVPN isn't the first consumer-targeted commercial VPN service provider to open-source its client software. The same goes for the privacy audits that many VPN services, including ProtonVPN, have had performed. Open-sourcing the client software doesn't resolve all those issues, but it at least makes it harder to hide violations of privacy on the client side.
"By open sourcing 100% of its client code, ProtonVPN is allowing security experts from around the world to inspect its encryption implementations and how the company handles user data, giving users more confidence the company is adhering to its strict privacy policy," the company said in a press release. If you don't know who owns or runs the VPN provider, or which country's intelligence or police services can get legal access to the servers, then you don't know who's seeing your data.
You want to see inside because VPN providers can see all of your non-encrypted traffic and will know exactly what you're looking at online, even as it shields that information from other entities.
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