Proton VPN finally allows you to exclude locations (on Android)

Proton VPN – 27 Apr 26

Proton VPN 2026 spring and summer roadmap | Proton VPN

At Proton VPN, our focus this spring and summer is to make privacy easier to use for everyone.

TL;DR:

We recently introduced improved connection preferences that allowed you to permanently exclude specific countries, cities, and states fromFastest Country** and Random connections on Android. Just set your preferences once, and the app will always pick from locations that actually work for you. Soon, we’ll be making the same connection preferences available on Windows.**

This is a feature that I have been wanting for years. I don’t understand why most VPN providers don’t have it. To my knowledge, Proton VPN is the first.

Although it is less the case now, my VPN used to constantly automatically connect to the same country that I was in, to my great frustration. It still does it frequently on my other devices.

I’m glad Proton VPN is finally adding this exclusion feature, and I expect to see it on other platforms. I also hope other VPN providers follow suite.