Proton VPN uses the Android killswitch, which prevents any connection not going through the configured VPN on a system level. This comes with the downside that lokal connections do not work as well. Depending on your usecase and POV, this can be a positive or a negative. Proton could probably implement their own killswitch, but note that a non-system killswitch can simply be circumvented - which is probably exactly why they don't offer it (yet).
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2025
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Nope. Extremely annoying.
Oh dang. I thought all kill switches had this limitation. So there are VPNs with kill switches to protect my torrenting from detection, while simultaneously allowing me to stream my Emby content locally?
For torrenting, it's not recommended to use the VPN kill switch anyway, it's better to go into the torrent client itself and bind to the vpn. This way you're protected regardless of if your VPN has a functional kill switch
Yes, that’s the way it works with Mullvad.
I just purchased the Proton Black Friday deal and am now having some buyer’s remorse.
I run my torrent client and Sonarr on my desktop with the media library and Jellyfin on my NAS.
I’ll have to turn off the kill switch or move the torrent software to the NAS. Neither is ideal.
No. The kill switch literally stops anything that doesn't go through the VPN. Even if you turn on split tunnel.
On my android device there's a setting in the advanced settings that says it should be able to do this.
On MacOs... Not a clue sorry :( maybe there's something similar in the settings?
It’s there on MacOS but if you enable you have to turn off kill switch. So, I’m not really sure what it’s for.