Their VPN is just reselling someone else's service, minimal effort invested while opening a mainstream service that actually provides an income stream. Seems like a solid strategy to me.

It also helps that the service they're re-selling is actually good.

(Mullvad, if you weren't aware)

Firefox VPN is great for beginners, but it assumes too much and isn't flexible enough for power users. I had to cancel it because "Allow LAN connections" didn't base itself off my local subnet, but on RFC1918. My network is in a private IPv4 net other than that, and I couldn't configure split-tunnel manually.

Proton VPN works wonders and I like their mail product too.

> Beats wasting time on an a commodity VPN service.

That service is what earns them non-Google revenue.