Proton, the maker of the popular Proton VPN has released a whole new set of features aimed at combating censorship, circumventing VPN blocks, and protecting the free speech of users. These features include a new “Discreet Icon” for Android users, servers in an additional 12 countries, and its own proprietary “Stealth” protocol. Proton Discreet Icon allows users to hide the Proton VPN icon on their Android phone and instead display it as something much more innocuous such as a weather, note-taking, or calculator app. While this may seem trivial to those in nations that have strong user privacy …