Why should this tool be removed? ProtonVPN should be removed from recommendations as its kill switch for MacOs is known to not work: When switching to another ProtonVPN server On computer boot up → In both of these instances, the user’s real IP becomes exposed to any online service it is connect…

Listen folks. The reason this thread is so ridiculous is because nobody can decide what they think the problem actually is. I think there are really three problems here, while everything else seems irrelevant to Proton VPN itself. Pick the problem you actually care about and talk about it there: Wh…

The absolute last thing PG should do is re-define what a kill switch is just to make sure Proton is reccomended.

That’s not what’s happened here. A few extremists have changed what kill switch means to something unrecognizable, and used that to disqualify any VPN that doesn’t agree with that definition. I suggest a new thread to debate what kill switch means and find consensus, this is the wrong place to debat…

[image] 6sxbi: A few extremists have changed what kill switch means to something unrecognizable, and used that to disqualify any VPN that doesn’t agree with that definition. This is false. The only good faith reason people want Proton removed is that it does not meet the current criteria. Wh…

I am happy to have this debate but it needs its own thread to reach a consensus as it is a different topic.

No thanks. I am not interested in the slightest in re-litigating consensus terms. I have seen that episode.

I think that’s the wrong take on this. Proton discovered the bug in Apple so they point out the Apple bug. They call the feature as implemented a kill switch so they consider it to be a kill switch. Before we can even discuss disqualifying Proton for not having a kill switch (which is not true in t…

[image] 6sxbi: Proton discovered the bug in Apple so they point out the Apple bug. Because it might not work on Apple systems, does that mean they shouldn’t care about other systems where it works because other providers show that it is possible? It isn’t even an Apple only disclaimer….

Did you read the link you post? The disclaimer is Apple only. They also offer what they call advance kill switch on non-Apple platforms, which is what I call extreme kill switch. This should not be the default kill switch definition. Even mullvad calls this lockdown mode instead of kill switch, so m…

Proton itself offers a definition for ‘kill switch’ in the article @any1 linked as: … a security feature that protects your IP address in case you unexpectedly lose the connection to a Proton VPN server. In case the connection is interrupted, a kill switch blocks all external network traffic to an…

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Please note that our regular kill switch feature can’t protect you if you intentionally disconnect from a VPN server. However, the feature does protect you while switching servers with Proton VPN.

When even Proton themselves add a disclaimer to the kill switch, it means they also think a kill switch should not behave this way, otherwise they would not add a disclaimer.

Edit: Replied to the wrong post… @6sxbi was who I meant…

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