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…

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

[image] Ganther: If it’s incorrect for years and they never fix it, then it’s intentional to make the product look good. Apropos of a sister thread on “Proton’s misleading marketing”… someone should dig up more on their “Suisse cheese law is the best” drivel. [image] Proton Mail Helped FBI…

Warning about its limitations in certain use cases sounds appropriate. Privacy Guides lists Firefox as a recommended desktop browser, even though you’d need to get something like Arkenfox installed for it to even be considered in the same league as something like Mullvad browser or Brave. From what…

Duping this from another thread: Hi folks, just some notes from the Proton VPN team that may be helpful, and some updates on what we are working on in this area: Kill Switch for Linux The Proton VPN Linux kill switch ( https://protonvpn.com/support/advanced-kill-switch , as of v4.2.0 and above) use…

[image] Proton_Team: There are some mitigations against this in place - users are warned before switching servers that their VPN connection may be briefly interrupted Where are they warned about this? @jonah made a video demonstrating the issue and I don’t see this warning anywhere. I have al…

[image] Proton_Team: we welcome feedback from privacy-focused users who want to contribute insights. Nothing in this post addresses the misleading documentation and marketing materials which this thread is supposed to be about.

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I’ll YouTube it

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