Slightly fussy user interface, but still worth the effort
VPN Shield has a reasonably good user interface compared to other VPNs I’ve tried, although it’s STILL A BIT FUSSY AND COUNTER-INTUITIVE AT TIMES. For example, when your subscription has expired and you click on the “VPN Shield” icon in the menu bar to renew your sub, once payment is made through the App Store, you have to quit the app and relaunch; otherwise, the new “paid-up” command doesn’t work, VPN Shield remains off, and it still shows “subscription expired”.
Also, the “authentication” after purchase is somewhat unclear. I had to “noodle around” a bit to make it work.
After buying a subscription, the app still works on only one of my Macs, although the menu bar icon shows up on all of them after loading the app. I’m still trying to figure this out. There’s no reason why a paid-up subscription shouldn’t effortlessly load on all my Macs the second I add the app to my Applications list on each machine.
VPN SHIELD NEEDS TO HAVE MUCH CLEARER AND LENGTHIER “COOKBOOK INSTRUCTIONS” for those of us who need them. Brilliant computer coders often think their work is “intuitively obvious” to all of us. It usually isn’t.
We also need A MUCH CLEARER INDICATION THAT VPN SHIELD IS REALLY RUNNING, rather than a slightly darkened icon in the menu bar. When I’m traveling in a repressive dictatorship, I need to know CLEARLY AND QUICKLY if VPN Shield is on. It’s way too easy to forget to turn it back on after a reboot. SOLUTION: RATHER THAN TINY, MEANINGLESS ICONS, CODERS SHOULD USE
If the user wants it, THERE IS ROOM IN THE MENU BAR FOR REAL WORDS! Thats an important lesson Macintosh inventor JEF RASKIN taught us over 30 years ago, now routinely ignored by many of today’s programmers who think icons are instantly meaningful to everyone. They rarely are!
Pete in CA about VPN Shield: Internet WiFi Security & Unblock Web
