We recently introduced improved connection preferences that allowed you to permanently exclude specific countries, cities, and states from Fastest Country and Random connections on Android. Just set your preferences once, and the app will always pick from locations that actually work for you. Soon, we’ll be making the same connection preferences available on Windows.
This is a feature that I have been wanting for years. I don’t understand why most VPN providers don’t have it. To my knowledge, Proton VPN is the first.
Although it is less the case now, my VPN used to constantly automatically connect to the same country that I was in, to my great frustration. It still does it frequently on my other devices.
I’m glad Proton VPN is finally adding this exclusion feature, and I expect to see it on other platforms. I also hope other VPN providers follow suite.
Considering how “closed off” the internet is becoming in many countries including several in the West, it’s now good to exclude those you don’t want to connect to or do anything with.
That said, I would prefer a State wise exclusion for the US too since not all states have the same internet freedoms.
That’s a valid point. The current workaround is to exclude cities, but being able to exclude states would be easier. That being said, if Proton VPN does this, they need to do it for all federal governments, even if everything is fine in those locations and there are no censorship issues.
There are at least 25 countries with federal governments, including the US, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Ethiopia, etc…If Proton VPN introduces the ability to exclude states/provinces/regions, I expect this feature to be available for all federal countries at more or less the same time.
I don’t think I have ever used that feature, so I don’t think I can speak to it.
I find it very disappointing that no one bothered to reply to @anonymous457’s post after all this time. Come on PG! We can do better! I’m sure someone knows the answer.
This has long been possible. Proton supports Wireguard and you can manually set up the peer (server) in the Wireguard app, without ever using proprietary blobs provided by Proton.