@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm Definitely Stealth protocol: https://protonvpn.com/blog/stealth-vpn-protocol/
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When Stealth protocol is going to become available on anything other than phones?
People have been asking for it since late 2022: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/win-app/issues/64
To make matters worse you have removed the option to download OpenVPN configurations in bulk.
I'm in Russia, so most servers are blocked, I'm attempting to find a configuration that might still work, but I can only access the download page from my phone where Stealth works. I don't have the luxury to download them one-by-one 🤬
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To transfer the configuration to my proxy I have to disconnect the VPN on my phone — this process is extremely daunting, I can't do this download configurations one at a time 😩
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What's the best course of action to take to bring the batch download option back to the configuration file download page?
Should I file a feature request from one of the official apps? Anything else? 🤔
@m0xee Yes, any idea you may have, feel free to share it with us directly from the app, or add it or vote for it here: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932836-proton-vpn
@m0xee Stealth for Windows is planned. We're aiming for summer and we'll share more information as we get closer to launch.
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Thank you for information! Any plans to make it possible to use Stealth without any apps so I could use it on my proxy directly?
Right now I've resorted to using my phone as a VPN box, my proxy is connected to it over wireless connection and both of them are connected to a router that is in turn connected to my ISP, three devices are involved so I can just access the Internet over wired connection. Not only it's a little bit unorthodox, but it's also suboptimal to say the least.
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Using Wireguard over a TLS channel is a neat trick, but it isn't exactly rocket surgery and it should be possible without any apps. I have found Proton's fork of wireguard-go on GitHub and it looks like code for it is there and it's what the Andoid app, I suppose, uses. However current implementation uses Android-specific bits and even if I'd be able to get around that and add an option to use TLS from command line, I'd still need additional information like ports.
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Different ones are probably used for Stealth than for Wireguard UDP. I suppose the app retrieves it using Proton API, but I would have to handle it myself somehow. There are also encryption keys to worry about — again, I suspect, the app takes care of that currently — so many things to figure out from reading the code.
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Maybe your engineers could do part of that and offer something to those who are tech-savvy and who are okay with less user-friendly and maybe suboptimal performance-wise solution. Obviously it would be still better than this solution I'm using currently with phone acting as a VPN box.
@m0xee Thank you for the very detailed feedback, we'll pass this on to our engineers.
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I can probably guess the reason why it was done: people were keeping outdated configurations, but that's not the reason to remove the option — add a warning, don't remove it for the ones who know precisely what they are doing. I'm a Proton Unlimited customer, there are over a thousand of servers in US alone, I hope at least one of them might still be accessible and I can still have uncensored access not on my phone only.