No kill switch with split tunnel and no socks proxy

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If for example you play a game that does not allow VPNs at all you can use split tunneling, but that will disable the kill switch so you can’t have any sensitive pages open in a browser while you are playing the game.

Some other VPNs have a socks proxy you can bind your browser to that acts as a second kill switch (among other benefits like less captchas). Proton has said they will never implement this because they believe it’s insecure Why Proton VPN does not offer a SOCKS5 proxy | Proton VPN. I don’t know all the technical details of the implementations on other services, but my understanding is that the proxy is connected to through the regular VPN connection so there is no unencrypted data like they claim in the article. In fact it adds another layer kind of like multi-hop.

I also think some other services have a kill switch that works with split tunneling.

I hope they consider some solution. At this point I’m thinking of subscribing to another VPN only for browsing and keep proton for torrenting.

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but that will disable the kill switch so you can’t have any sensitive pages open in a browser while you are playing the game.

You could use the browser vpn extension:

The reason why Proton doesn’t offer a socks5 proxy is clearly outlined in the article you linked:

SOCKS5 does not encrypt your data, so anyone who can intercept your traffic (for example, using a man-in-the-middle attack) can access it.

I also think some other services have a kill switch that works with split tunneling.

As pointed out elsewhere in your commet chain yesterday, logically speaking, you cannot want to force everything through the VPN (killswitch activated), yet then have exclusions (split tunneling).

At this point I’m thinking of subscribing to another VPN only for browsing and keep proton for torrenting.

That doesn’t make sense. As a paying customer you have access to the browser extensions, which could cover that usecase.