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Reviews for Proton VPN: Fast & Secure

Proton VPN: Fast & Secure by Proton, Proton Team

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  • by Chris, 2 years ago
    as of March 20, 2023 I am encountering a few issues : a popup comes every 2 minutes to say that the VPN/proxy is connected, fairly annoying. Yet the most annoying is the fact that extension uses the Proton Webmail session instead of getting its own session (with restricted access!) just for the purpose of o VPN. If you logout the webmail it will log you out of the VPN extension as well. Plugin also lacks configurable exceptions. I will revise my review as updates are coming hopefully
  • by ThisIsRandom2, 2 years ago
    It keeps disconnecting. I have already upgraded to 0.1.7. It happens whenever there is inactivity and you resume browsing. The inactivity triggers the disconnect. If I keep actively browsing it won't disconnect. However, that's not sustainable.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, thanks for your report, browsers have mechanisms to shutdown services that are no longer "needed" and our proxy got kicked by this when there are no requests. It's in our top priorities to prevent this.
  • by Firefox user 12522511, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 17814152, 2 years ago
    simple, works, and good speed. Would like to see more control over sites, for example, exclude certain sites from vpn traffic (for example banks). Or, integration with multi-account containers so that we can decide which server or no vpn used for different containers. Looking forward to new features.
  • by ivkom, 2 years ago
  • by RomNemo, 2 years ago
    Great Add-on! The message box "Connected to ..." popup too frequent (not sure the reason as the icon in tool bar always show connected) and stayed too long. Although in the option there shown an option of "Display notification to you" in permissions tab, it is an "Required permissions" and can't be changed. If user can switch it on/off will be great or at least with option to set the the display time (1s?).
  • by Firefox user 17810049, 2 years ago
    hassle-free setup, worked great out of the box, up to the standard I'm used to with Proton
  • by Firefox user 17470179, 2 years ago
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  • by Firefox user 13618045, 2 years ago
    Haven't fully tested it for leaks etc. But it looks good, and easy to install. Reliable so far.
  • by Firefox user 15022613, 2 years ago
    Very Good and Very fast but it seems to disconnect randomly without any notification that it does so you dont know its not connected

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, we're trying hard to fix this for the stable release. Meanwhile could you try to update to 0.1.7 (keep the Auto-connect on in the settings tab) it should help recovering from disconnections.
  • by Bruce Olsen, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 17803833, 2 years ago
    I regularly notice that the Proton VPN icon is gray, meaning it is no longer connected, even though I was connected just a minute ago. Also sad that it is missing the Kill Switch, pretty important feature for a lot of users.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, we're trying hard to fix this for the stable release. Meanwhile could you try to update to 0.1.7 (keep the Auto-connect on in the settings tab) it should help recovering from disconnections.
  • by Pistarino, 2 years ago
    Nice idea, unfortunately it disconnects continuously from VPN.
    UPDATE: the disconnections were fixed in the 0.1.7 release.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, we're trying hard to fix this for the stable release. Meanwhile could you try to update to 0.1.7 (keep the Auto-connect on in the settings tab) it should help recovering from disconnections.
  • by Shtoomik, 2 years ago
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  • by Cronotokyo, 2 years ago
    Would be nice to see what protocol is being used.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello. It's using HTTPS proxy:
    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/proxy/settings
  • by Firefox user 14033065, 2 years ago
    Works well and is simple to use.
  • by QuietK, 2 years ago