Installed proton vpn and can only go online with it on

General Help
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hi,

i installed proton downloading the app and it works fine but I can only go online when the VPN is active? any ideas why?

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Do you have the killswitch function enabled? I had the same issue with NordVPN and disabling that feature worked.

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my vpn app wont even load properly
argh.

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Are there terminal configuration settings you can verify if your app GUI won't load? Look for the Killswitch CLI command in below link on GitHub.
protonvpn-cli ks, killswitch

You can also run the command protonvpn-cli --help to remind yourself how to configure the application via CLI.

Can you uninstall the application? If so, recommend uninstall and then try to access a website. If you need to re-install, suggest using the setup guide located at the link below:

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I uninstalled it via terminal but now I don't have access to the internet anymore. I'm pretty sure this is still caused by the Killswitch unless I uninstalled it too.
I'm not so familiar with Linux.

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None of the Killswitch commands work. Just says commands not found

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this worked thank you very much

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Good to hear.

I believe @Hdky is alluding to the fact that the solution at this post is what helped solve their problem.

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