Re: PSA: My review of the Windows "free" Aloha VPN chromium-based browser

On 09/06/2026 19:30, Maria Sophia wrote:

Just to be clear, I have no knowledge of this browser whatsoever, I have 
not tested this and I won't be, I have no skin in this game. I'm just 
posting comments about your comments which may be interesting, may not be.

> it rewrites the whole
> routing table, so all traffic (not just browser traffic) is forced through
> its tunnel

Well, I get that because VPNs on Windows are notorious for leaving the 
door open when they collapse and of course it sorts the DNS problem.

> The tunnel collapses unpredictably, with no kill switch, no route lock, no
> OS-level awareness. When it drops, Windows just sends everything out over
> your normal connection-instantly exposing your real IP mid-session.

> Broken routing & DNS:
> After a drop, routes and DNS are left in a half-broken state: leaks,
> stalls, orphaned routes, resolver races, and users needing route -f to
> recover.

This doesn't make sense to me as you would think the only route outbound 
would be to the VPN.

This reminds me of techniques on embedded systems which does protect 
against VPN collapse, but of course on an embedded system using unixes 
the re-connection either manual or automatic just involves destroying 
the entire network setup, reading the config, and creating a new one.