mobile-ios VS passepartout-app

>API seems to specifically be for apps created by owners of WiFi hotspots to help users connect to those hotspots.

VPN apps also seem to use it: https://github.com/pia-foss/mobile-ios/blob/4618b55161ec5b8b...

I'm satisfied with the transparency Mullvad has shown by publishing its 9 audits.[1] I also appreciate how Mullvad releases up-to-date source code for all of its software clients, which I consider a bare minimum for any VPN to even be considered.[2]

Private Internet Access, on the other hand, does not release up-to-date source code for its software clients:

- PIA Android client: latest source release v3.14.0 (Mar 18, 2022) vs. latest Google Play release v3.18.0 (Feb 22, 2023)[3]

- PIA iOS client: latest source release v3.14.0 (Mar 18, 2022) vs. latest App Store release v3.20.0 (Mar 1, 2023)[4]

- PIA desktop client: latest source release v3.3.0 (Feb 23, 2022) / v3.4.1-beta1 (Aug 18, 2022) vs. latest downloadable release v3.3.1 (unknown)[5]

- PIA browser extension: latest source release v3.1.0 (May 31, 2021) vs. latest Chrome Web Store release v3.2.0 (March 8, 2022)[6]

It's not clear to me how much of a say you still have in PIA's operations, but if you have any influence, I kindly ask you to direct them to release the source code of PIA's clients on time, every time a new client version is released. Having open source clients was the PIA's last claim to credibility after PIA was acquired by the former adware/malware distributor Kape Technologies.[7]

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[1] Mullvad's audits: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits/

[2] Mullvad's GitHub repos: https://github.com/mullvad

[3] PIA Android client - GitHub: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privateint... / Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privateint...

[4] PIA iOS client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/vpn-ios/tags / App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vpn-by-private-internet-access...

[5] PIA desktop client - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/desktop/releases / PIA website: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/download/linux-vpn

[6] PIA browser extension - GitHub: https://github.com/pia-foss/extension-chrome/releases / Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/private-internet-a...

[7] HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21612488

No idea but the PIA VPN app for swift is open source. At the very least you can dig through the code here and figure something out

PIA VPN - VPN App by Private Internet Access.

Note that the underlying application for Librem Tunnel on iOS ( https://github.com/pia-foss/vpn-ios ) is still on the Apple store and can still be used with the Librem One services ... one simply needs to perform the setup yourself (much like one needs to do for Librem One Mail on Apple).

I've been looking for the past days for a solution to get NextDNS and ProtonVPN seamlessly working together on my iPhone and found several workarounds, but none of them worked or worked stable enough. I prefer the advantages of NextDNS over Netshield. Then I remembered I purchased Passepartout quite a while ago (available in the App Store, also for iPad and Mac) and since it's a very user-friendly, flexible OpenVPN Client I expected it to have a possibility to enter custom DNS server, so I would be able to use NextDNS for parental controls et cetera instead of ProtonVPN DNS servers. I started fiddling, but to no avail, unfortunately I still had no DNS-resolution. I mailed the developer of Passepartout and got a reply within the hour pointing me to Github, to this closed issue: https://github.com/passepartoutvpn/passepartout-apple/issues/171#issuecomment-786809247. It works flawlessly and as I already had ProtonVPN configured, I only had to add an NexDNS ip address to the config, and reconnected and my problem was solved!