IPVANISH kill switch

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Awesome - If you have any questions you can post here or our subreddit

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Thank you, I will give your VPN a try, a kill-switch is a must for me.

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I just subscribed and downloaded it. We shall seeā€¦

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Here is more information on the kill switch for both FireTV and AndroidTV

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Morning All,

I just installed IPVanish VPN kill switch on my 4K Max firestick. Its a companion app that must be downloaded from app store. Lol, still going to use Safety Dot.

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Still wild to me they need a separate app for a kill switch when all other VPNs build it into the main app. Whatever works, I guess.

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Are you from the West Coast?

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I totally agree with you. Its just plain crazy to have a a seperate. :thinking::thinking::thinking:

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Midwest coast and Iā€™m an early riser. Sorry, if my post notification woke you.

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a cat is laying on top of a person in a bed with the words `` get up '' written on the bottom .

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Mslea, I too still use the dot. Iā€™m just so accustomed to subconsciously seeing it.

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I love the dot. The only thing is it wonā€™t kill the connection if thatā€™s what youā€™re looking for. Just turns red and keeps on chugging along. I like having a kill switch to kill the connection if the vpn drops

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I prefer both kill switch and dot working at the same time.

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Will continue to use both. The kill switch on my android keeps dropping, so they still have work to do on the kill switch app.

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Me too and will start using both.

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Hi @AMD237 It is not a wild idea at all to have a separate kill switch app. Let us explain. The reason we chose this path is that the Fire Stick will often run out of memory and kill apps like your VPN app in favor of whatever app you are currently actively using at the time like say Netflix or Kodi.

In our real world testing several of our competitorsā€™ kill switch would often fail because as soon as the fire stick would get low on memory it would kill the second most demanding app that was running and that would often wind up being the VPN app. As soon as that happened the VPNā€™s killswitch would fail because it was part of the main VPN app that just got killed.

This happens more often than you would think, especially for fire sticks that are loaded with apps and addons. Our goal was to create a lightweight companion app to try to ensure that it would fly under FireOSā€™s memory conservation and continue to run even if the main IPVanish app was killed to conserve memory in favor of the main app you are actively using on your fire stick at any given time.

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Thanks for explaining, and I do understand the logic. Your explanation and research is all about Firesticks, but some of us donā€™t use Firesticks. Even less will use them as their new OS gets indoctrinated into the line. None of my devices ever run low on memory, or kill my apps because of that. That being said, I have no issues using the standalone app, Iā€™m just used to having it within the main VPN app, is all.