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…

The issue is that I’m unsure a line of documentation being incorrect is in fact the same thing. When the criteria was originally written, it was more about things like [image] And FUD like this when this “problem” is solved by design rather than by policy in Tor: [image]

[image] jonah: The issue is that I’m unsure a line of documentation being incorrect is in fact the same thing. If it’s incorrect for a week or month and they fix it, then it’s a mistake. If it’s incorrect for years and they never fix it, then it’s intentional to make the product look good.

[image] Bhaelros: We can wait here in PG forums for an official reply While I support people reaching out to get an official reply, I do not think a precedent needs to be set where we need an official response everytime a tool runs afoul of the marketing criteria. [image] jonah: The issu…

[image] anonymous549: While I support people reaching out to get an official reply, I do not think a precedent needs to be set where we need an official response everytime a tool runs afoul of the marketing criteria. Indeed I would say it is more of their responsibility to be aware of communi…

[image] jonah: The question is whether this “treatment” is delisting them, or if it is warning people about this error. I think I am bit of a hard liner in this respect. I think, without extenuating circumstances (such as the kill switch issue which I think has some more reasonable nuance), i…

Here is all of the information I could find on ProtonVPN’s claims regarding their macOS kill switch. I could not find any other official correspondence from ProtonVPN on the matter. Blog post: What is a kill switch? A kill switch is available to all Proton VPN users on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS …

[image] Overall-Bet3743: you’re expecting the regular Kill Switch to do something which is not designed to do – namely, prevent you from connecting to the internet even if you manually disconnect from the VPN. Proton would probably argue that they are technically correct here. This is the c…

[image] dngray: I would highly suggest customers of Proton report this. It’s not a bad idea, in fact, IMO, this is a must, but I am personally not convinced that it will be enough. In the past, I have asked Proton to clarify their ToS, and they said they didn’t think it was necessary, even th…

[image] dngray: I would highly suggest customers of Proton report this. Hi, already have done this in the past and only received a generic PR answer (on lumo open source)

I’ll YouTube it :stuck_out_tongue: [image] Video demo: Proton kill switch not working as described on macOS televisionVideos PeerTube above, but published to YouTube for reach slight_smile

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jonah (Jonah Aragon) March 11, 2026, 4:56pm 38

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 won’t mark this as completed since of course we’re still discussing additional changes on top of that, including potentially update!: Remove ProtonVPN by jonaharagon · Pull Request #3203 · privacyguides/privacyguides.org · GitHub

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