ProtonVPN
Remove intrusive tracking/telemetry
Even after turning off everything under "Help us fight censorship", the app still sends POST requests to URLs such as:
https://vpn-api.proton.me/data/v1/stats/multiple
https://vpn-api.proton.me/data/v1/metrics
I demand to know why this is happening, and what this data is used for. And this tracking needs to be removed ASAP!
I use the F-Droid version, as the Github/Google play version is worse (it has google analytics and connects to firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com).
Thank you for this. Now what?? Is nothing sacred anymore??
Nov 14, 2025, 12:48 AM by @.***:
IsHacker003> created an issue > (ProtonVPN/android-app#176) https://github.com/ProtonVPN/android-app/issues/176
Even after turning off everything under "Help us fight censorship", the app still sends POST requests to URLs such as:
https://vpn-api.proton.me/data/v1/stats/multiplehttps://vpn-api.proton.me/data/v1/metrics
I demand to know why this is happening, and what this data is used for. And this tracking needs to be removed ASAP!
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Add in /data/system/ifw/ name it "ch.protonvpn.android.xml" and add activity block for:
"ch.protonvpn.android/com.protonvpn.android.ui.settings.SettingsTelemetryActivity"
