I’ve been testing VPN services and somehow every one with a client has written their own. Proton, Windscribe, IVPN, Mullvad, AirVPN, NordVPN, and the list goes on.
Don’t these services all do the same thing? Connect to a server to get a list of servers, then use WireGuard or OpenVPN to make a connection, and have some fancy stuff like split tunneling or a killswitch. It should just take configuration by adding profiles per service and it should be possible to use the same client.
What am I missing?
The client is packaged and sold with the VPN subscription to “add value”. People like you and I understand that VPN clients are pretty simple places of software, but most VPN customers, well… you know
I have a custom work VPN that looks like it came from the 90s. Just a simple button, a few options like reconnect.
My home VPN which I pay a subscription for, the UI looks like how the hacker movie UIs look like. There’s a global map with all the servers. There’s different modes. It’s nuts.