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

  • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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 ✅

    • UckyBon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I mean, Reddit is their target audience, if that doesn’t tell you enough about the company…

        • vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          9 months ago

          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.

          • Nelizea@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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            9 months ago

            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.

      • Nelizea@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Reddit isn’t their target audience. The reddit community is small compared to the user base in the big picture.