Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad

Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by hendersoon on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:08AM (#20793385)

Back in the day, every videocard manufacturer released their own drivers. Diamond, Canopus, BFG, etc, they all took the baseline GPU drivers and added their custom branding. This meant that after Nvidia released a new driver, it could take weeks before Diamond put it up on their website. You missed out on bugfixes and optimizations for new games. So everybody just used Nvidia's drivers, and eventually all the various companies stopped doing it entirely.

Mobile VPN apps are in the same spot. They all use the same backends; OpenVPN, IKEv2, and/or Wireguard. Everybody's time would be best spent making _those_ apps better. The OpenVPN iOS app has a particularly poor UX.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by 01CGAT on Sunday August 25, 2019 @11:14AM (#20793414)

For example on iOS you use the iOS NEVPNManager API for setting up an IKEv2 VPN connection, if this is updated in an iOS release and you use it in your VPN app, your app will be "updated" too. So in this sense it's not comparable with videocard drivers from back in the day.

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Re:Problems that forced me to leave ProtonVPN for Mullvad by hendersoon on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:45PM (#20796108)

That's true, IKEv2 is natively supported. OpenVPN and wireguard aren't, and most of the paid services use OpenVPN right now.

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