Allow Killswitch to be enabled with Split Tunnel
Currently, the app will not allow you to use the Split Tunnel feature if you have the Killswitch enabled. Having migrated from Private Internet Access, I was used to having this possibility with their client and would love to see this in Proton VPN as well.
Having some exceptions configured to bypass the VPN should not completely block the killswitch feature and open the risk of IP leaks.
I would be okay with the VPN app completely killing my bypassed connections as well, it wouldn't even have to be gracefully respecting those. That would just be a nice-to-have.
Jan
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Jon
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Please, please implement this. If Mullvad (and NordVPN!) can do it, surely, Proton can.
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Jim
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I've been asking for this for YEARS. It's the one thing that's stopping me from using ProtonVPN as my provider. It's clearly not difficult to do - Mullvad has an excellent implementation (open source BTW - but lousy for streaming/CAPTCHAs), NordVPN does it also and so do a few other others. Specifically, allowing permanent kill switch (boot time protection) and split tunneling to be active together. Considering how privacy focused Proton is, I'm really surprised they haven't done this yet. Maybe the journalists and others who really need the permanent kill switch don't have bank accounts and ever need to split tunnel :-). But seriously, it's not difficult. Come on guys, let's just pls knock this one off the to-do list
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K
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I saw that Proton VPN had a kill switch and split tunneling, both important features to me. But after buying a 2 year subscription now I found out that they are incompatible! Very frustrating. This means a lot of error-prone manual switching for me.
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Temanor
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This is a quite important feature for many. Especially if you want to avoid IP leaks when torrenting. I never really understood why this is not a thing in Proton, and I was quite disappointment when I found out.