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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?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your VPN isn't forcing you onto its DNS and is using your ISP's. I'd assume Proton has some kind of "antitracker" option or similar in the client that would make it use a Proton-provided DNS server. Failing that, you can use a public DNS server located outside of a piracy shield country by setting it manually.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Appreciate it! Yes, for every other poor Italian coming to this thread, the secret was to enable Secure Core and the antitracking features.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Personal recommendation: https://ipleak.net is a good website to check your DNS, torrent protection, and some more useful info.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://browserleaks.com/dns

And you need to configure protonvpn correctly so it uses their DNS. In the VPN world this is known as a 'DNS leak'.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably because of your DNS configuration?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm thinking it must be a DNS configuration issue... Every server with ProtonVPN is showing the same, from the US to Netherlands to Switzerland. All of them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Someone described to me in detail how your computer resolves hostnames.

https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/926852/-/comment/5928540

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Switch to cloudlfare DNS or something similar.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

My brother in Christ do not spread disinformation x)

I can access it without even using any vpn, just changed dns a lot of time ago and I never get that piracywall

Secondo me stai leakando i dns, controlla di averli configurati bene

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure its because of the piracy shield thingy. Secure Core might be an option as long as no Italian servers are used and you're using the VPNs DNS

https://torrentfreak.com/airvpn-stops-serving-italians-due-to-piracy-shield-blocking-requirements-240206/

“[A]ll parties in any capacity involved in the accessibility of illegally disseminated content – and therefore also, by way of example and not limitation – VPN and open DNS service providers, will have to execute the blocks requested by the Authority [AGCOM],” the notice read.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yes, it absolutely is a result of the piracy shield thingy. Secure Core does seem to work!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Use a DNS out of your jurisdiction, preferably a privacy focused one, that issue will go away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Change your DNS resolver to one of these https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In which country is the protonvpn server?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Search "what is my ip" on your web search engine to see without and with a VPN connection, to see if you're really going through the VPN tunnel. Seems like you aren't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Can confirm that the IP address/location appears to change, but the block and AGCOM interception remains.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I'm using windscribe VPN from Italy and it works without issues right now