Split tunneling feature has been disabled as it was leaking user #DNS requests - which can be used to ascertain browsing activity to whoever captures the leaked requests - since at least 2022.
Not a #VPN I would recommend for other reasons, but yeah - choose your VPN provider carefully.
@9to5Mac Finally! I was looking forward to this as an ExPat in France with kids. A native TV app will come in handy to entertain them with some content from Brazil again. Hopefully, #ExpressVPN or #HotspotShield will join the party soon. 🤞🏼🇫🇷🇧🇷🍿
#expressvpn had put their price up and I’ve had flakey connections of late so I decided to change my #vpn supplier to @protonvpn#protonvpn
I’m not a big user of VPNs, mainly when I’m traveling around or related to business. Proton was definitely a better financial deal and it’s interface is quite lovely.
If you use a VPN, they won't be able to monitor you, and they won't be able to throttle your connections. (Unless you consumed your daily limit, or the signal is bad.)
Note: VPN, by itself, will not increase your connection speed. The reason it gets faster is that your ISP is already throttling you and routing your connections through their monitoring software, but a VPN bypasses most, if not all, of those.
For example. If I am not connected to a VPN, everything is slow. SSL certificates are incorrect—but browsers can't detect that it's using the ISP's certificates. There are URLs / IP addresses that are either too slow or inaccessible (even though they are not questionable).
But when I am behind a VPN, everything is fast and smooth.
Another example. If I am not connected to a VPN when playing Guild Wars 2, there are parts of the game (like news and Trading Post / Auction House) that fails to load. But if I play through a VPN, it works.
Lastly, VPNs will provide you increased #privacy and #security. So, that's a plus.
As a long term #protonmail user and until recently a user of the bundled #protonvpn service.
Issues with the vpn led me to sign up to #expressvpn and I was initially impressed - but now I'm growing less sure that I'm really gaining anything.
I still get issues with website blocking me because I'm on a non-ISP IP address and I still need to reconnect every now and then because I've essentially lost connection.
Will I renew expressvpn? I'm not sure so running proton on a couple of devices.
@protonmail - well I said I'd report back after a month so here I am and I have to say that I've not been experiencing the connectivity issues with #protonvpn that I had in the past.
I still get blocked when accessing certain sites but #expressvpn doesn't overcome this (blame cloudflare for that I think)
I've been running it for a month on my phone and all good there so maybe I can drop #expressvpn when it renews.
Well, for quite some time the proton offering was just too flaky. When it was working it was fine but it would frequently block all internet traffic with no notification - I'd only notice when I tried to open a website. If it disconnected and reconnected it was fine again (for a while) - has it got any better?
A recent survey, conducted by ExpressVPN, finds that 79% of gamers play retro games (www.expressvpn.com)
Lots of interesting stuff in the article. The part about retro gaming is near the end.