ProtonVPN

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with ProtonVPN, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Commenter finds the ProtonVPN interface quite terrible, without specifics2025-12-14
Constant nagging and restrictions, and the app often fails to connect2025-05-20
Cancelling takes effect immediately, so users must cancel on the last day or lose value2022-02-08
Unclear when the VPN shuts down, closes, or goes inactive, so users disable it accidentally2019-08-25
Cryptic error when connecting on two devices at once, with no clear explanation2019-01-30