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Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton (proton.me)

submitted 9 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

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[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fuck. Really? I'm seriously considering switching to Proton but I'm also in the middle of moving to Linux and that's not negotiable. Shit I took Linux support for granted.

[–] juststoppingby@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The Linux client isn't perfect, but you can download the openVPN config file and set up individual server connections yourself. It's all laid out on their website, fairly simple. If you know what you're doing, you can also edit the config files to allow IP-based split tunneling.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried their OpenVPN config files but I always get IP leaks. Any idea on how to fix that? :(

[–] juststoppingby@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe there's a way to do it using iptables, but I'd have to look into it more again. You might get more experienced people answering if you search for "openVPN force traffic through VPN iptables" or something similar. Let me know if that helps!

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Turns out the problem is that Proton does not support IPV6, at least via OpenVPN or WireGuard. Disabling ipv6 fixes the problem, though I don't really enjoy that solution :|

[–] juststoppingby@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Ahh yeah, that sounds right. When you use the official GUI on Linux it creates an IPV6 killswitch connection along with the VPN connection. Sorry, I don't have any better answers for ya there.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, well the VPN client I config in my router so as long as Proton uses OpenVPN or WireGuard I should be able to get it to work, even though I barely know what I'm doing. Converting settings files manually to settings in pfSense is doable.

[–] juststoppingby@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I can't speak about pfsense or router-based configs, I have zero experience there. The Proton website does have openVPN and wire guard manual setup instructions though. You could try it with a free account first to make sure everything works before committing to paying for it. If you're interested, I can show you the changes I made to the openVPN config file to allow split tunneling. Again though, I don't know how that translates to pfsense.

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Good to hear they have manuals for both OpenVPN and WireGuard. Thanks for the info. And thanks for offering to show me split tunneling, but I don't think that's necessary at the moment. But it's great to know there's a way to set it up like that, I'll keep that in mind if I need it in the future.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm using proton bridge on debian...

Downloading a .deb file is admittedly not ideal and not "the debian way" but it works

Their VPN services should be accessible by any linux client (but i've not tried yet)

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the info. I see they have an RPM version, too. I hope works on OpenSUSE.