ProtonVPN auto connect on wifi
Please allow to configure automatic VPN connection when connected to wifi (with an exclude list)
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Pierre Pierre Blais
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Would be nice for Proton VPN to automatically connect over open Wi-Fi networks, as soon as internet connectivity is possible (that is, account for portals).
Would be nice for Proton VPN to automatically disconnect when leaving Wi-Fi and going over cellular (unless this is made optional).
As well, whitelists and blacklists of Wi-Fi networks would be nice. No point of running a VPN when I am at my home or my work (although some may wish to run VPNs when at work). Whitelist would list networks for which automatic VPN is not required while blacklists would list networks when VPN is required.
Perhaps also consider whether VPN bypass should be allowed on some blacklisted Wi-Fis. Perhaps instead of whitelist and blacklist woul dbe a per-Wi-Fi network profile that lets the user select whether it is automatic, bypass is allowed, killswitch is activated, etc.
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Birch Review
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This feature is also built into Norton's VPN (as well as Express & Nord), and I keep using it instead of ProtonVPN because of this feature.
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myprotonideas
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Option to automatically enable ProtonVPN when connecting to Wi-Fi untrusted connection is really needed.
I'm experiencing 30% + loss of bandwidth through VPN and it would be very useful to enable it only on unstrusted connections (as an option) -
Dan
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Would love to see this implemented in iOS, and is the one thing that makes me look back at Nord occasionally since switching
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Luis Chastain
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Common feature and pulls me back to NordVPN with frequency...
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Jamie
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Rafael, I've opened a PR to add basic connect/disconnect on insecure network for the windows client: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/win-app/pull/101
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Christopher Dressler
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This has been a needed update for years and I can't understand why it isn't even a planned feature by now since many other VPNs have it.
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Rafael P
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Option to automatically enable ProtonVPN when connecting to Wi-Fi or untrusted connection.
Why isn't there an option to automatically enable ProtonVPN when connecting to Wi-Fi? I mean, it would be even better to have an option to esclude some of the saved Wi-Fi networks, and mark them as "trusted".
But the simple use case that 90% of travellers use is to switch VPN on as soon as connecting to a public Wi-Fi. I don't need to waste my battery and Internet data when navigating in 5G with a VPN.
Why can't I just automate that with one click in the app?
Yeah sure, you can do that with 3rd party apps, but come on. We are in the era of AI automation and we seriously still need to remember to switch on and off our VPN when walking outside of the hotel or airport?
ExpressVPN and NordVPN have this important option.