Well, color me surprised when, with my Proton VPN enabled, I still faced a government-mandated MITM attack while attempting to visit 1337x.to
"AVVISO
L’accesso al presente sito, che diffondeva illecitamente contenuti protetti dal diritto d’autore, è stato disabilitato in esecuzione di un provvedimento dell’Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni ai sensi del Regolamento di cui alla delibera n. 680/13/CONS
Per maggiori informazioni visiti il sito www.agcom.it"
To be completely honest, I wasn’t aware this was possible when using a VPN. I’ve tried swapping to multiple servers within Proton, but all seem to be returning the same. Is there some commonly known workaround?
Personal recommendation: https://ipleak.net is a good website to check your DNS, torrent protection, and some more useful info.
Change your DNS resolver to one of these https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/
Use a DNS out of your jurisdiction, preferably a privacy focused one, that issue will go away.
I bet this is ops issue. Either the vpn auto selected the fastest server (probably in Italy) of op defaulted to a local server. Op should change server to a country with more lax rules (Netherlands?).
Nope. Swapped to every other server ProtonVPN has. I'm thinking it might be a DNS configuration issue though, because yeah, I don't understand why a different server wouldn't end run around this.
I'm using windscribe VPN from Italy and it works without issues right now
