Piracy shield in Italy - unavoidable even with a VPN? (ttrpg.network)

submitted 5 months ago by Gutless2615@ttrpg.network to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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

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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?

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[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In which country is the protonvpn server?

[-] Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

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?).

[-] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 10 points 5 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.