Well, color me surprised when, with my Proton VPN enabled, I still faced a government-mandated MITM attack while attempting to visit 1337x.to
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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?
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.
Appreciate it! Yes, for every other poor Italian coming to this thread, the secret was to enable Secure Core and the antitracking features.