This would be a valuable privacy feature for streamers, presenters, and anyone who shares their screen. A simple setting to mask the displayed IP address with asterisks or hidden text would help prevent accidental exposure while still allowing users to access VPN controls safely. Such a toggle could significantly reduce the risk of revealing sensitive network information during live broadcasts or meetings.
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One minor difference of opinion. It needs to not be a toggle. This intrusive criminal screenshot aid needs to be completely gone! It serves exactly ZERO purpose. No one wants their IP revealed in this, or any OTHER, manner. If we need to see our true IP, there are other easy ways to go about it. Which don't hurt security routinely as this anti-feature does.

To Shivram (and all others). This problem we're all complaining about is NOT an oversight on the part of Proton VPN. It is INTENTIONAL. This "dramatic asterisks visual" which converts your TRUE IP to asterisks "dramatically" under the super ironic and gaslighting heading "Protecting Your Digital Identity", is an anti-feature that used to NOT exist in Proton VPN. Proton only added it about 2 years ago. It serves exactly ZERO purpose, except to make it possible for government goons or other criminals to SCREENSHOT your true IP. And furthermore, Proton VPN KNOWS this fact, because I have TOLD THEM several times! It's not an "innocent mistake" by someone at Proton. I am 100 percent convinced of that! It is an open and deliberate attempt to lull their customers into complacency, while they (or someone(s) inside Proton) weaken the security in the most brazen way possible. Right in front of your eyes! I'm not being "paranoid", I'm being "descriptive" here. Sometimes the best way to do something truly and unimaginably AWFUL is to do it right in plain sight. That way people will actually make mental excuses for it, thinking it could not POSSIBLY be as bad as what it looks like. But this asterisks animation thing that REVEALS your true IP is exactly that! It is a bald-faced effort to REVEAL everyone's true IP address to any screengrabber, including government goons, who can get such a remote access tool (RAT) or otherwise, on your devices! It is OUTRAGEOUS and INTOLERABLE. We need to organize off site, if this is not rectified ASAP, and form a class action lawsuit against Proton. I hope to avoid it, but they are currently making it hard to avoid thinking about a class action lawsuit.

We also need to start talking this INTENTIONAL vulnerability up to YouTubers and others who make VPN review and evaluation content. Maybe they can make someone at Proton wake up and find their internal government agents! And fix this easily fixed self-damage...and quickly!

I think your complaint is the same as mine. I just opened a ticket about it myself a few minutes ago, see the wording below. BTW, I just voted for your complaint.

"(1) Stop INTENTIONALLY BROADCASTING your customers digital identity to SCREENGRABBERS on the Proton VPN splashscreen under the false gaslighting heading "Protecting Your Digital Identity", which you do every single time we change our IP addresses! (2) And find the GOVERNMENT MOLE(s) in Proton who got this EXTREME and OBVIOUS privacy violation designed and implemented in the first place!

How this hasn't been actioned yet is crazy - asterisks by default, click to reveal.

This is an excellent and much-needed suggestion. A simple toggle to hide the on-screen IP address would make a huge difference for streamers, presenters, and anyone who shares their screen. Accidentally revealing your IP during a live broadcast poses a real security risk, and it’s something that can happen in just a second. Replacing the visible IP with asterisks when the toggle is enabled is a clean, effective solution. It would add an important layer of protection without changing the app’s functionality — definitely a feature worth implementing.

Definitely something that should be added, but you should definitely use window capture or game capture instead of display capture. (Alt tabbing is one example of another way you can leak sensitive information on stream)

i really like this idea! (p.s. what is up with all the bot comments in this thread, yeesh)

The fact that this is not a feature yet, contradicts with the “Privacy by default” slogan.