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I dont use proton. But could you grab some wireguard config files from the service and set them up with that?
Try looking at this
You log in to the VPN separately from the web or other phone apps. You don't automatically get access to other Proton services because you're going through your Proton VPN.
So you can login to just the VPN app for them.
I mean if you have physical access to the PC you could sign them in using your credentials, but if they're ever logged out, you would have to go and physically log them in again.
If you're fancy, you can send them a simple configuration file exported from your Proton account and give that to them, if they know how to use it.
This might be the best way to go about it. Wireguard has an iOS client and it should be easy to set up. I’ve done this for dumber devices, should be okay.
Or frankly, some others here are mentioning that logging in to one service doesn’t automatically log you into all of them. So maybe I’d be giving my family member more flexibility by not limiting them to a small number of servers as defined in the configs, since each one needs a file and picking among them is annoying if there’s an issue.
That said, going from 5 euro a month for Mullvad to 5 + 10 to add Proton does add up, and to be honest, a second free Proton address and a second Mullvad subscription (and investing in a more local solution instead of getting tied down to Proton Drive) might be better for me.
But I haven’t made any decisions just yet. The 500GB of storage might just end up swaying me.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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