Remove ProtonVPN

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

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:

What is going on with Proton’s kill switch on Linux?:

ProtonVPN Additional note: Killswitch failure and IP Leakage on Linux

This topic remains an issue. I think the community is generally of two minds about this: Thank you for your analysis. I will share the most likely counterpoint for people to consider: I think it’s probably fair to argue that on Linux you should be aware of what you are installing and what those programs are doing. A kill switch in this scenario that applies to the default network configuration is mainly going to protect you from random disconnects, while an intentionally misconfigured progr…

What is going on with Proton saying their kill switch works on macOS?:

How should we handle Proton's misleading marketing?

Currently, Proton’s kill switch documentation is incorrect, which seems fairly severe: Now, we can certainly note this ourselves, and I have a PR open to do so: Do we want to take stronger action against Proton for this?

What can we reasonably expect people to do about macOS/iOS limitations anyways?:

What should we require of VPN providers on macOS?

The discussion surrounding Remove ProtonVPN - #332 by ph00lt0 is so random and all over the place, that I am not even going to attempt to sort it out and try to move some posts over here. See: I think the main question is: Should we require providers to use hacky workarounds like pfctl filters on macOS instead of standard tools the OS provides? It feels like the answer is probably no, but if anyone wants to continue this discussion then this is a fine place to do so.