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
Occasionally they provide value ad services through these paths as well. The “kill switch” functionality of the proton vpn virtual driver comes to mind.
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.