Remove ProtonVPN

[ignoramous]

@SwampTrainer

Kill switch seemed to be working just fine. Agreed that if you’re so concerned and your threat model is such that your free VPN isn’t good enough, use the Wireguard client.

Please read the thread. To summarise: ProtonVPN doesn’t meet minimum criteria laid out by PG, as its macOS client has a broken killswitch.

Not the Linux client.

@SwampTrainer

use the Wireguard client.

As far as I know, for the official WireGuard client on Linux, the “killswitch” has to be set separately. It isn’t built-in.

@anon98749087

not voting to remove this because I think this is a fine product for probably a lot of people

Not removing it or not changing the minimum criteria for VPNs right away then makes PG a “dangerous” source of information. I mean, we won’t tolerate this from other projects or orgs, so why Proton?

@jonah

I wasn’t bothered by this when he did basically a similar thing with Calyx and their hotspots, but Phreeli IMO has gone too far with the privacy claims and is actually misrepresenting their product, which is dangerous for consumers