Currently, Proton’s kill switch documentation is incorrect, which seems fairly severe: [image] Remove ProtonVPN Proton still says that “the [killswitch] feature does protect you while switching servers with Proton VPN” which indeed remains demonstrably untrue on macOS. While this is no longer a t…

Just an update, currently at minimum I think nobody disagrees that update: Warning about Proton kill switch on macOS by jonaharagon · Pull Request #3205 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub should definitely be done, so I’m merging that PR in the interest of updating our site quickly. However…

I plan to do so over this weekend. I have more to say than jsut the VPN.

[image] FranklyFlawless: Their account was active five days ago I would report this through customer service channels and not to that account on these forums, as that will get entered into their zendesk system.

[image] Kagi (Search Engine) For this reason I’m going to mark this thread as rejected for now, and add a reminder that just because we don’t include something on the website doesn’t mean we’re recommending against it, it just means that we have no official opinion one way or the other. Since …

If this issue had been resolved a month ago, then another option might have worked, but now the only thing to do is remove Proton from the VPN section. When they fix their product, their marketing, and their attitude, someone can start a new thread about adding it back. And you will not change the …

It’s weird though. When I was in North America, Proton worked great (the kill switch issue notwithstanding, that’s always been iffy with them). But I’m now in the GCC and only Mullvad and IVPN seem to work here. And no WireGuard is not actually being blocked, just Proton IPs it seems. It can still …

[image] parkerchandler1979: When I was in North America, Proton worked great (the kill switch issue notwithstanding, that’s always been iffy with them). But I’m now in the GCC and only Mullvad and IVPN seem to work here. And no WireGuard is not actually being blocked, just Proton IPs it seems. I…

I’m not in Iran. I would not be online if I were. But I’m close and thankfully internet blackouts are not an issue here. Also, VPNs while officially “prohibited” can and do still work. It’s widely tolerated. The region has bigger problems than VPN crackdowns. But what I said was just my experience. …

[image] parkerchandler1979: I’m not in Iran. I would not be online if I were For anyone else reading, this was about a year ago, when they weren’t either. [image] Encounter5729: Let’s keep on-topic please. Agreed.

Don’t get me wrong. I love that Proton has a great suite of apps and how much they contribute to the privacy community, but their marketing strategy is at least disconcerting for me. It is well known on the marketing world that to target a competitor ant point its flaws while presenting your own pr…

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dngray (Daniel Gray) March 11, 2026, 10:44am 23

I know for a while in Iran they were blocking all public DNS servers and then also blocking the api.vpnprovider.example.com endpoints. Windscribe got quite creative with those domains a while ago - no user would see these unless doing packet inspection.

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