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?

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Some of these clients have extra features (eg obfuscation to get around VPN bans) but yeah, I wouldn’t use any VPN provider that didn’t at least provide wireguard configs I can use without their own custom client.