Setup: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, COSMIC desktop, kernel 7.0.11-76070011-generic.

After a system update, ProtonVPN got stuck indefinitely on "Connecting" and never established a tunnel. Checked journalctl and found:

do-add-link[proton0/wireguard]: failure 95 (Operation not supported - Unknown device type)

Turned out the WireGuard kernel module wasn't auto-loading when NetworkManager requested the interface, even though the module itself was present and fine. Confirmed by running `sudo modprobe wireguard` manually - loaded instantly with no errors.

Fix: force it to load at boot instead of relying on auto-load:

echo wireguard | sudo tee /etc/modules-load.d/wireguard.conf
sudo reboot

Connected fine afterward. The underlying cause isn't specific to Pop!_OS/COSMIC though - the same "Unknown device type" failure shows up in bug reports on stock Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian-based setups too. Support may tell you it's a "kernel limitation," but if modprobe loads it cleanly by hand, it's just an autoload gap, not an actual incompatibility.

Posting in case anyone else hits this after a kernel update.

• Logged in.
  
• Selected the 24 month Proton VPN Plus subscription.
• Paid 71.76euro.
• Bank confirms it and shows the money went to Proton.
• Even after an hour has passed no mail recieved from Proton nor the subscription page shows anything or no invoice generated in Proton Account.

What to do now?

\*I have already contacted them via support bot and provided bank statement as well as subscription page picture via mail. How long will it take? or is money gone for good?*

First time purchasing any VPN service, didn't expect it to be like this.

Hey everyone,

We’re proud to announce that the long-awaited “Stealth” connection protocol is now available in beta for Linux!

📎 To try it, make sure your Proton VPN app is on version 4.17.1, and follow this guide.

If you are on a supported distro (more on this later), please help us by giving it a try and providing us with as much feedback as possible; the more feedback and bugs we can squash, the faster we can roll this feature out of beta

What Stealth does

Most VPN protocols produce traffic that's identifiable as VPN traffic. Networks running deep packet inspection can spot it and block or throttle the connection, which is why VPNs stop working on some school and workplace networks, and why they get blocked entirely in censored regions.

Stealth disguises your VPN traffic to look like ordinary encrypted web traffic. Instead of "this person is using a VPN," the network sees traffic that resembles a normal HTTPS connection. That makes it significantly harder to detect and block.

You'll want Stealth if you're on a network that blocks or throttles VPNs, connecting from a region with heavy censorship, or you'd simply rather your network operator not know you're using a VPN. For everyday use where nothing is being blocked, WireGuard will still be faster, while Stealth trades some speed for undetectability.

This is a beta

Expect instability and bugs. Stealth on Linux is built on our new WireGuard codebase, and this early release is specifically so we can find problems before general release.

If you hit issues, please tell us: your distro and version, what you were doing, and what went wrong.

Please note that this feature is only available for distros that are directly installed via our repos (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), and versions such as the Snap store app, or other distros such as Arch will be available by the end of summer.

Lastly, it may take some time before this feature becomes available, even if you are on the latest version of the app. We’re rolling this out live, so it may take a day or two before the feature becomes visible on your end.

Stay safe,
Proton Team

My commute finds me listening to a LOT of music, and after some experiments found that I can get consistency with Apple Music streaming with the anti-censorship profile. I tried the streaming specific, tried picking my nearest server (US CHI), and it is just something about the anti-censorship profile that causes all the interruptions to stop.

I'd love to know more about the "why" but I wouldn't even know where to start looking tbh. Anyone else with similar experiences?

I installed Debian on a virtual machine for testing purposes. I can't install or run Debian version 13.6.0; I tried using commands in the terminal, but nothing worked—it won't install. No matter what I do, it just doesn't work! I would appreciate it if you could look into this!

What does the stealth protocoll do?

Why is ProtonVPN the only one that is not being compared here ? 

https://proton.me/alternatives

Hey all

So I've just recently started using Proton VPN. I've used browser extension VPNs previously, just for brief periods to try download something or whatever, but not super knowledgable about the ins and outs.

I'm basically only using it to watch streaming content that's outside of my country, or to download torrents.

I've tried it a bunch of times to allow me to watch Prime Video via a US VPN (on my laptop) but it still sees that I'm not in the US. Maybe this is a Prime thing, and their systems in place to combat VPNs etc, but even when I googled something "near me" just to test it, Google still found my actual location and didn't say I was in the US.

So for example - if I'm switching on the VPN because I want to watch something on Prime that isn't available in my country, or I want to download something or whatever, what are the things I should do - ie, Do I clear the cache for that website, THEN connect VPN? Flush DNS/IP or anything? Any kinda standard things I should do every time so that my connection is recognised as the VPN location?

Hope that makes sense. Thanks :)

My prepaid visa was denied and I'm sick of Nord.

Recently I’ve been unable to stream anything on Amazon Prime Video as it detects that I am connected to a VPN.

I am connected to a USA VPN Server via my UniFi router and I am UK based.

With new laws in Canada that required ISP to log everything they can and serve to authority without a warrant, I've decided that I should guard up as best as I can, since I have nothing to show.

I just put wireguard on my network with all Proton VPN settings. While the speed seem to be decent (average of 140mbps/DL) I usually got aroung 1gbps+ without a VPN.

Since I use the closer server as I can, and got the full package from Proton, is there a way to improve that or it is the limit of what I should expect in term of speed?

Please help

Hi,

It would be great if the Windows app had the option of blocking/disrupting the activities of Microsoft's GlobalDeviceID using DNS filtering through Proton's own DNS (same way it is done to block ads and trackers).​

This has happened to me on two successive mornings:

1. I temporarily disconnect Proton in order to visit a bank site.

2. I reconnect Proton (to the same server). Icon confirm it's back up.

3. My browser (Firefox) and email client (Thunderbird) no longer connect to the internet and must be restarted.

Any thoughts on what's going on? I'm not doing anything different these days, but I did recently let Proton upgrade to v. 5.1.5.

Adding the executable "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" doesn't work. What am I missing?

Note that PowerShell is the only app I'm having issues with. qBittorrent works totally fine. My goal is to have only Pwsh and qBit in the list of included apps.

When split tunneling is disabled, Pwsh uses the VPN connection just fine. With Include mode, Invoke-RestMethod doesn't work, and for the things that do work, my ISP IP is used instead of the VPN IP.

Invoke-RestMethod test:

> Invoke-RestMethod https://api.ipify.org
Invoke-RestMethod: The requested address is not valid in its context.

cURL test:

> curl.exe https://api.ipify.org
<My ISP IP>

I'm on Windows 10 21H2, ProtonVPN 5.1.5, Pwsh 7.6.3 x64.

I'm also using the Console Host, not Windows Terminal, if that matters.

Can someone explain how to properly set up PowerShell for this?

Thanks, everyone!

Hello all,

Now that the European Union Council has voted about and greenlighted both the Digital Euro currency and especially the controversial Chat Control 1.0 resolutions (although that latter had more votes AGAINST it!) I think it's time to put some encryption in place. Not because I have anything to hide, but just to make it as hard for them as possible to peak over my digital shoulder and log anything I do.

I looked at Proton's Ultimate package and for 10 euro per month you get a lot! 500 Gb encrypted drive space, password/key manager, crypto wallet, elaborate encrypted e-mail options and a VPN with all the trimmings like split-tunneling.

Is there anyone here that has the Ultimate plan and share their experiences with me? Should I get Proton Ultimate?

Especially some advice about the paid VPN service? Like, is it reasonably fast and not much disconnects?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

dont know if this is a problem but even before i switched to proton my mullvad had suddenly swapped from private network to public. also have had troubles seeding on qbittorrent and wondered if this was related. would love some help.

How do I use Proton and NextDNS together?

I had been using proton vpn for about 1.5 years with mlb.tv but this week they started blocking all domestic servers, then even International. At this point no more local games….

This was my main reason to get vpn.

The Windows operating system isn't great for privacy, so we use Linux. Please release updates for Linux just as early as you do for Windows make the timing identical. For example, the "Stealth" feature is available on Windows but not on Linux; apparently, that's coming in the summer. We want early releases and equal updates; treat Linux the same way you prioritize Windows.

I am having several problems related to proton services currently, first, Proton VPN wont connect to either my Google Pixel 10 nor my Windows 10 Computer and when i try to connect to Proton VPN on my computer it never connects and my internet goes out, only to come back up when i cancel the connection attempt. Similarly, across both of my devices (Windows 10 Computer, Google Pixel 10) not a single Proton webpage will load and they connection time out. (I.e: I try to go to Proton.me and it never connects until the connection times out.) Both of these problems only started when i added a secondary password to my Proton Mail account a week or two ago. I CANNOT contact support due to not being able to access proton webpages. What can be done to fix these? Is anyone else having a problem like this?

The below websites by Proton are really nice for showing you IP.

https://ip.me/ (especially nice when using on linux : curl ip.me)

https://protonvpn.com/what-is-my-ip-address

Does a DNS leak website by Proton also exists ?

If not then https://dnsleaktest.com/ by iVPN is fine i guess...

EDIT : https://myip.wtf is cool as well !

Hello,

I've been using Proton products for a long time and first off, thanks for this truly fantastic product. I use Proton VPN on Linux and I've been missing an IP randomization feature like other services have offered for a while now.

So I wrote a Bash solution for Proton VPN (CLI) on Linux. After installation, the command protonvpn-random sets up a random connection that switches at random intervals. All Proton VPN CLI commands stay fully usable while the script is running. The script and the official app work together seamlessly.

If that sounds like something you'd like, feel free to try it out. I'd love to get feedback to keep improving the script.

https://github.com/tuiroot/protonvpn-random