VPN-support.md

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+# Conclusion (November 2025)
+
+We decided that the first thing we want to have is VPN Browser.
+
+The VPN can be activated at any time, ie: there should be nothing about VPN in the *Welcome Screen*.
+
+
+ VPN and Tor will be shown in parallel, without any hierarchy between the two. As an example, we might add a
+VPN icon to the torstatus onion icon we have right now (the one which opens onion circuits).
+
+We want to only allow configuring one VPN at a time.
+
+We're still torn about which UI to use as a frontend for Network Manager. Among other advantages, having a
+custom UI will make it easier for people to connect to a captive portal first, if they haven’t started Tor
+yet.  Because, right now, captive portal detection is only integrated in Tor Connection.
+
+We want to have a way for users to persist their configuration. This is not part of the MVP. Even when we do
+this, we don't want to autoconnect to VPN ever. VPN Connection settings will popup when opening the VPN
+Browser.
+
+We are already envisioning some follow-up, especially allowing other applications to have their traffic 
+routed through the VPN. The main usecase is Signal, where the ability to make calls depends on this.
+
 # Temporary conclusions from April 2023
 
 Historically, we only considered VPNs combined with Tor not to loose the strong