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

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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?

    • Mountain_Mike_420@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 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.networkOPEnglish
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        6 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.