There’s definitely a lot of stuff they could be doing better. And for some reason they won’t listen to their users on some of these things.

Maybe try asking for these features over on their reddit pages? People from proton are actually on those. I don’t think anyone from proton is here on lemmy

Proton family is one step above unlimited, then there’s proton visionary

possibly because there’s higher tiers such as proton family and proton visionary

I don’t know if this would be a good idea.

Sometimes it’s good to run things for a profit, that way there’s extra in case something needs to be upgraded

I haven’t heard anything.

When I did the survey, it was mentioned, but I have no idea how to access it

you may need to use your desktop/laptop to do that.

depends on the password and encryption you use on your home router. If your router is a VPN router, then your risk is significantly less, but not zero

all your traffic being intercepted by a malicious actor that hacked a wifi router

it is, but don’t use their VPN, it’s vulnerable to tunnelvision

iVPN and Mullvad are the only two I’m aware of that are immune to tunnelvision

oh…cool

you mean this wasn’t a feature already?

either the official app or the official web-app. Those are the only two ways you should bother with it.

okay, so which VPNs are affected?

ipleak(dot)net is a much better test to see if your VPN is working correctly.

Swap proxies while the test is running to see if there’s any leaks. that’s the one thing that almost every VPN fails at protecting. Mullvad and proton are the only 2 I’ve ever used that don’t leak.

With mullvad, proton or iVPN, just enable lockdown mode or what proton calls the “permanent” kill switch.

That should block all unprotected traffic with no issue

Edit, I used policy plus to delay my quality updates by 30 days and my feature updates by 365 days and a couple of days ago I paused my windows updates because I saw britec09 talking about how some of the more recent updates to windows 11 will cause bluescreens sometimes. So I’m not affected.

How to check if it’s working? ipleak(dot)net is very helpful for checking that.

use it to check if your VPN is leaking DNS traffic whenever you swap proxies, almost zero VPN providers leak DNS traffic when connected, but almost all of them leak DNS traffic whenever you swap proxies.

Proton is one that doesn’t leak…at least not on desktop.

It CAN leak DNS traffic sometimes on some mobile OSs

you can disable that stuff…the crypto wallet stuff

Whenever I try to use containers in firefox, they just randomly reset to the default 4 at some point down the road

firefox only stops that kind of thing when you go into about config and turn those features on.

Brave is almost perfect.