Is it just me, or are the native apps just infuriatingly bad?
I'm legitimately on the verge of changing providers, and I think I will be when my plan expires. The native apps on Windows (granted this one is a lot better), iOS, and MacOS are just so awful and I have repeatedly had issues with them.
As we speak, despite having split tunneling enabled, my entire device's traffic is being noticeably slowed down. And there's plenty of other issues too, such as the lack of anything but IPv4 for custom DNS, where support for DNS over HTTPS should be expected from any modern service. And the inability to exclude your current country from the "fastest location" button, at least on most devices. I'd also like to draw attention to the fact that development on the official apps is incredibly slow, and most suggestions on here are not, and never will be implemented
Now, this would all be easily forgivable if it was possible to just use third party apps. But of course, Proton seems to dislike the idea of giving users freedom in that regard. Not only have they deliberately made this harder by limiting the amount of servers you can see when downloading config files, and deprecating their API, but even if you do want to download configurations, you'll have to manually download each individual server you may want to connect to (and go download a new one if it gets changed). Other providers are way more lenient with this stuff and make it considerably easier. Hell, providers like Mullvad and IVPN are really easy to integrate with third party clients and have gone out of their way to offer support.
Apologies for the rant of sorts — it pains me to be saying all this. ProtonVPN is generally pretty great, and I value the commitment to privacy. But damn, am I really the only one absolutely fed up with these terrible apps? Please leave your opinions below, I'm genuinely curious. And if any Proton employees are reading this, for the love of god please just make it easier to use third party apps, that would satisfy me and most others.