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…

Submitted to @team for approval: update!: Remove ProtonVPN (#3203) main ← remove-protonvpn opened 07:51PM - 10 Mar 26 UTC (UTC) [image] jonahar…

[image] dngray: for something that amounts to a platform implementation issue with macOS/iOS ( There’s 200+ replies in this thread. Which replies did you miss to arrive at this conclusion? [image] Remove ProtonVPN hammer_and_wrenchTool Suggestions on i…

After all the discussion about criteria, I certainly did not anticipate that Proton’s failure to meet marketing minimums would be the reason for initiating its removal. I do wish @jonah would expand a bit more on the decision to leave Proton up for so long after issues had been posted. [image] …

Just cc’ing @Proton_Team Maybe they’ll do something about it now..

[image] dngray: The only high assurance way to ensure a kill switch is with separate physical router, or VM like what Whonix does where packets are forwarded from one interface to another and the firewall rules dictate that it must stop if the interface is down. Then why is it a minimum requi…

[image] ignoramous: There’s 200+ replies in this thread. Which replies did you miss to arrive at this conclusion? There’s also a lot of spam in this thread. I’m not reading 272 replies. [image] ignoramous: If that’s the “only high assurance way” to “hide your traffic from ISPs” and VPN c…

Dude, please put a minimum level of effort into reading my original post and reply. I was using this example Important note: As we have reported, Apple’s macOS and iOS operating systems don’t close all existing connections when you connect to a VPN, specifically certain DNS queries from Apple serv…

[image] jonah: we are not providing you with an SLA that demands we submit PRs within 24 hours of a forum thread being opened or anything like that. Could we atleast get an SLA of less then 6 weeks for staff to atleast respond to a tool suggestion thread? It should be a bit embarrassing that …

[image] dngray: brigaded from the people over at /r/privacy so consensus doesn’t really mean a lot. …about 3 months after the creation of the thread and a consensus had already been reached. I think maybe 3 votes have been added since that reddit post. At the very least you could have scroll…

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jonah (Jonah Aragon) March 10, 2026, 8:19pm 319

As a reminder, Privacy Guides website editors are a completely volunteer team, and we are not providing you with an SLA that demands we submit PRs within 24 hours of a forum thread being opened or anything like that. I would encourage more community members to volunteer if they want to help improve the site

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