From the team;
Hi everyone,
As you may know, we released our fully rewritten Proton VPN app for Linux in October 2023, and we’re now making sure it catches up with the rest of the Proton VPN apps in terms of the features it offers.
In November, we added Secure Core, and today, we’re adding the Advanced Kill Switch.
This feature prevents all outgoing and incoming connections outside the VPN interface, meaning that your device will not be able to access the internet unless you connect to one of our VPN servers. You can learn more about how to set it up here: https://protonvpn.com/support/permanent-kill-switch/
More on how to install the Proton VPN Linux app in our support article here: https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/
We want to thank everyone who contributed during the alpha and beta phases by testing, giving feedback, and submitting suggestions for improvement. Your input is invaluable. And we’d like to keep getting it!
Please share your thoughts below so we can continue to make improvements based on your needs.
Stay safe,
The Proton VPN Team
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This is awesome! Does it completely disable all traffic or can applications set in split tunneling continue to communicate?
Split tunneling isn’t there yet.
Split Tunneling won’t be possible with the current backend (Network Manager) as that is just not technically feasible, but once we get the native backends that will definitely be possible. But the rest, will be there in due time.
I’m confused, I thought it already had this? I’ve been using it for months. What is new here?
Glad to hear that things are still happening to the Linux app anyway. Slowly but surely we’ll catch up to feature parity (split tunneling when?).
All internet connections into and out of your Linux device will now be blocked unless a VPN connection to a Proton VPN server is active.
If I understand correctly, before version 4.2.0 (that includes the Advanced setting), the kill switch wasn’t active until you opened the ProtonVPN program. So if you restarted you PC, it was connecting to the internet without going through the VPN tunnel, so your traffic was somewhat exposed.
Now, with the new permanent kill switch, there’s no internet access without running ProtonVPN.
That would make sense, cheers
Split tunneling the latest I can find is from 4 months ago:
Split Tunneling won’t be possible with the current backend (Network Manager) as that is just not technically feasible, but once we get the native backends that will definitely be possible. But the rest, will be there in due time.
Source is on reddit. (If interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/174pv4a/the_new_proton_vpn_linux_app_is_officially_out_of/k4jxesn/)
Yeah they basically falsely advertised that they had it for years, even though it didnt actually work.
You might have the beta installed as that’s had the advanced killswitch for a while…I was confused for a second too!
Why are you linking to Reddit? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It is a copy paste from the reddit announcement. And we don’t necessarily have all the links here yet to link back to.
@JimmyBigSausage Maybe because Proton is using Reddit as one of it’s main communication/support channels (in my opinion a farce).
So communicating on Lemmy by linking to Reddit about our super-secure VPN that it wasn’t as super-secure as we thought, so now with the update it will be superr-duper secret-secure with death switch? Right. Ok got it ✅
I mean, Reddit is their target audience, if that doesn’t tell you enough about the company…
Reddit isn’t their target audience. The reddit community is small compared to the user base in the big picture.
@UckyBon That’s an important point. That doesn’t reflect well on Proton.
Neither does the fact that they gave up the email account of a climate protestor when subpoena’d to do so, but everyone wants to just memory hole that whenever I bring it up on lemmy or scream about how /obviously/ a company that presents itself as secure and privacy respecting has to comply with the law!
Nevermind that there are more secure and privacy respecting alternatives for both VPNs and Email. Shh. Not important.
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@vexikron which company is more secure concerning privacy (and security) within mails? Can you give examples? Everyone has to comply with local laws…. @protonprivacy
Neither does the fact that they gave up the email account of a climate protestor when subpoena’d to do so, but everyone wants to just memory hole that whenever I bring it up on lemmy or scream about how /obviously/ a company that presents itself as secure and privacy respecting has to comply with the law!
Nevermind that there are more secure and privacy respecting alternatives for both VPNs and Email. Shh. Not important.
Oh come on, still beating that dead horse? Isn’t it already way dead? Protecting or offering privacy does not mean lawless state. Proton is protecting its users privacy and at the same time, as a swiss company, has to follow swiss laws. The only law that matters is Swiss law.
By the way, about climate protestor, maybe it is time to get the facts straight. It is never mentioned and conviently left out always:
Also, the charges leveraged in the French case were theft and destruction of property, which were well evidenced, substantiated, and quite serious crimes. Their identity was known to police already.
It is simply impossible to switch from one place to the other with a finger snip. Building communities takes time.
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That’s nice but can you investigate why on one occasion proton take 1 second to connect reliably with no issues, but on another occasion it takes forever (and sometimes fails) to actually connects to any server at all? It keeps happening to me on Android 14 and and on Windows 10…
Please contact the support team:
Does the new version have Wireguard or is it still stuck with just openVPN?
I gave up on ProtonVPN for my Linux devices and switched back to Mullvad. They have Wireguard and split tunneling on Linux and have for quite a while.WG isn’t supported yet, OpenVPN has DCO though, which should improve OpenVPN to match WG’s speed performance:
So still no Wireguard and no split tunneling…sticking with Mullvad then.
