Reviews for Proton VPN: Fast & Secure
Proton VPN: Fast & Secure by Proton, Proton Team
337 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Islenya, 2 years agoI completely trust anything Proton, whether email, cloud, or VPN. And you can get the free version for all of the above.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15935514, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15028866, 2 years agoSo happy this exists now. I would just like a secure core toggle. It would also be neat if it could detect when I'm already connected via protonvpn-cli, it doesn't seem to be able to at present.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Steven, 2 years agoOpen source and all that nonsense just as an excuse to get email addresses?
Lures you with free use (See Website with the big Button "Proton Free"), although it is only for payment, which you only find out afterwards when you have already registered your email address.
Privacy and honesty look different.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello, you can download and use for free the desktop application. The browser extension, for now, is a closed beta only for paid users. - Rated 5 out of 5by Nicolás Córdoba, 2 years ago"Unable to find the proxy server" i can´t connect any server
They solve the problem - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17622799, 2 years agoVery pleased with this extension the only annoyance is a popup comes every 2 minutes to say that the VPN is connected, very annoying when using my browser all day.
- Rated 5 out of 5by tpsa, 2 years agoPure awesomeness!
Desktop app is handling my whole traffic; FF extension allows me to pick a different VPN server just for my browser traffic. Proton feels like the best on-line privacy services out there. Hopefully that will not change in the future :)
Really worth supporting the organization. - Rated 3 out of 5by Chris, 2 years agoas 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
- Rated 2 out of 5by ThisIsRandom2, 2 years agoIt 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 agoHello, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12522511, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17814152, 2 years agosimple, 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ivkom, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RomNemo, 2 years agoGreat 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?).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17810049, 2 years agohassle-free setup, worked great out of the box, up to the standard I'm used to with Proton
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17470179, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by owlyph, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17809271, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17477884, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13618045, 2 years agoHaven't fully tested it for leaks etc. But it looks good, and easy to install. Reliable so far.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15022613, 2 years agoVery 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 agoHello, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bruce Olsen, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17803833, 2 years agoI 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 agoHello, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Pistarino, 2 years agoNice idea, unfortunately it disconnects continuously from VPN.
UPDATE: the disconnections were fixed in the 0.1.7 release.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Shtoomik, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Chris M, 2 years ago