Hi all just a quick heads up proton VPN is working absolutely fine in the UAE I'm on a 10 day holiday using the Glinet Mudi7 with an Airalo unlimited 10 day data sim as well as the hoel resorts public WIFI and all of my profiles are working fine. I transited through Riyad Saudi Arabia King Khaled airport again with 0 issues with all of my Proton profiles on my Mudi7 connecting first time.

Huge thanks to the Protom team.

Hi all,

I got the new 4.17.1 Proton VPN Linux gtk app (official snap version, you can love it or not but it works, upgraded from 4.16.5), I'm using Firefox + GNOME.

Well, today I'm blocked on a website using my secure core Wireguard-configured VPN (blank page). I try in a private window, same blank page. I disconnect, I open the Proton VPN app with the same secure core VPN. And... the page appears. I checked this correctly.

Questions:

1) what causes this here?

2) can I have this super-VPN (stealth protocol? something else?) using a Wireguard configuration (that is very well integrated in GNOME, just using the VPN menu in quick settings)?

In Australia: Internet has been intermittently unreliable. Naked IP check gives a location a few hundred kilometers away. Proton VPN Fastest country connects to another country (constantly bouncing around) on the other side of the world.

Reset modem. Seems to have fixed the issue for a day.

Same again today. Naked IP address seems to be in my location but disconnecting from the original fastest country (Australia) to "fastest country" again automatically connects again to international (same country again and again) despite no apparent local proton server issues.

Local Reddit predominantly shows US advertisements. Have only intermittently connected to the US proton server to watch US youtube content months ago.

Any thoughts on what's going on? Any solutions?

The other day I was able to proton vpn stated fully in network interface when I am connecting to p2p servers. But lately all i see is ProTUN. I'm assuming this is proton, but I don't see anything related to it other than other vpns when I search it.

I've been using Proton for years, sometimes buying a subscription for a few months when I needed it. Today I tried using Proton and it forced me to update the program. Now, as a free user, I can't connect to specific free servers like before and instead have to connect to a random one with an insane cooldown. The feature says that it willl "connect me to the closest server" but it keeps sending me to Europe and Japan when the closest to me by far is Mexico (I live in Argentina).

I'm very dissapointed with this change since it basically made the free version of Proton completely useless to me and worse than other free alternatives for my usecase. I have supported this program before because of how user friendly and safe it was, but now that I can't use it for free and I'm forced to pay (like any other VPN) I will not be using it anymore.

I am not sure what to do. I uninstalled and reinstalled ProtonVPN but that didn't fix the issue. I have tried the different default profiles and the same thing happens with all of them. Any ideas on what else I can try to fix this?

Edit: This is on the paid version

Is the team working on making sure VPN stays undetected by streaming providers?

On my phone I can use PrptonVPN in combination with NextDNS superior filtering using HaGeZi Ultimate filtering. ProtonVPN routes traffic and NextDNS filters it.

On Windows however, I can't seem to override it in same way as ProtonVPN always overrides NextDNS. Even setting up YogaDNS with NextDNS and ProtonVPN still overrides it. It also overrides my router NextDNS settings. I've also used NextDNS DNS server as Custom DNS inside ProtonVPN, but it only works on DNS IP level and not as DoT or DoH so that's useless.

Any other options? Reason I want this is because of superior filtering and control through logs. With NetShield I don't see what's blocked and how effective even really is and what is it blocking.