Double vpn
Today I'm buying Premium on X, it's cheaper in Türkiye. However, I'm in China so I can't connect to many servers (include all those in Türkiye) directly.But I can connect to some servers in Japan.
So I connected to Japan on my phone, then I turned on hotspot on my phone and enabled "Allow clients to use VPN". After that I connected my computer to the hotspot. Then on my computer I connected to Türkiye. So I connected to Türkiye indirectly successfully. But I need to use 2 devices.
I hope you can add the feature "Double VPN" to the Proton VPN app. So people in countries with strict internet censorship can connect to anywhere.
With this feature, when a server is blocked in my country, I can connect to it indirectly without a second device.
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Proton User commented
This is an interesting solution. I would even say brilliant. But this is definitely not the experience that the Proton developers intended.
The problem you described is also experienced by other people, for example, those living in Iran and Russia.
And we are all REALLY waiting for Proton to finally solve the problem of connecting to servers.
For example, Mullvad makes a LOT of NOTICEABLE efforts to ensure that their users can use VPN even in countries where it is blocked…
https://mullvad.net/help/connecting-to-mullvad-vpn-from-restrictive-locations
They have many articles with instructions, for example, on setting up bridges:
1. Shadowsocks for Android
2. Shadowsocks with v2ray
3. xtls with Mullvad VPN
4. SSH and Mullvad VPN
There is an option "Test the API connection".All this is missing in ProtonVPN!
Of course, this is NOT ADVERTISING for competitors. I just really want our favorite product to have these features and even more!
I'm not a super-technical specialist - but there are plenty of ideas/suggestions on how to make API connection available even on this site with ideas.
Usage:
Tor bridges / WebTunnel / I2P
DNS (DOH, ECH, oDOH https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932836-proton-vpn/suggestions/48489893-oblivious-dns-odoh)
storage.googleapis.com (https://meduza.io/feature/2024/05/03/bit-ly-meduzamirror)
«Anti-DPI» (https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932836-proton-vpn/suggestions/49101596-techniques-for-circumventing-deep-packet-inspectio)
VPN (https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932836-proton-vpn/suggestions/48238031-censorship-resistance)
NewNode (https://www.newnode.com/newnode-kit)
DHT
SSTP / Softherher / AnyConnect / OpenConnect
https://habr.com/ru/articles/799751/
And I'm sure there are many alternatives...