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@sp_rtings I see in your Proton review you have “Kill switch works as intended.”

I know the kill switch has been a big issue here as of late.

ProtonVPN Additional note: Killswitch failure and IP Leakage on Linux

Article: ProtonVPN IP Leakage on Linux and Workaround | PrivSec - A practical approach to Privacy and Security Killswitch does not work with all network interfaces. Can you be tested using following command curl --interface <physical interface> https://ipinfo.io Suggestion add an additional note aimed at Linux users in next section https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/#additional-notes

VPN killswitch Linux

Hello, I have a question regarding a VPN killswitch. I’m on linux and I don’t have nftables installed. I have iptables but an empty ruleset. Whenever I activate the killswitch I have no internet without connecting to the VPN. How is such a killswitch possible without firewall rules? The killswitch doesn’t add an extra interface nor does anything special appear whenever i execute “ip rules”. What other ways are there to block internet traffic on linux? I’m new to the linux kernel and therefor…

Remove IVPN

Remove IVPN from list of recommended VPNs for it’s failure to implement a functioning kill switch. When using Apple services on iOS 16+, a VPN connection does not fully protect your privacy against Apple. Even with an active VPN connection and kill switch enabled, traffic from your iOS 16+ device to Apple servers can leak outside the VPN tunnel and expose your local IP address to Apple. For this reason, during the next release we are removing the kill switch feature from the IVPN iOS app. Conne…

Remove ProtonVPN

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 connected to prior to re-connection to new ProtonVPN server. On ProtonVPN’s official website they claim that “[regular kill switch] does protect you while switching servers with Proton VPN” : What is a kill…

Are you guys considering looking more into that feature, especially for Linux and Mac?