I’m not even using the VPN, I’m just trying to have a look at their website, but trying to access https://protonvpn.com/ results in Firefox telling me:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to protonvpn.com. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.
I am in the UK is that matters somehow, does anyone else have this problem?
It means that someone is tampering with your connection to ProtonVPN. Are you on a restrictive network? (One that may block some content).
Are you running behind a proxy?
Their website is blocked in some way on your network. Try changing your DNS resolver.
You are obviously in UK. Try to change the DNS to cloudflare or maybe google. If this problem persists, you should really think about getting a decent VPN. UK and many other european states moving into totalitarian measurements, censoring the net and trying to sabotage certificates.
I can’t connect with ProtonVPN. I tried 3 different countries. Maybe it’s not just you? Seriously think this is a waste of money…
It’s likely that your devices are using the default DNS set by your ISP (the company you bought your internet from) and are blocking “bypass methods”.
To test this, go to your phone network settings, and set the dns provider to Googles or Cloudfares.
Greetings,
I get that when my VPN is on …when I try to access website, and I have to turn off my VPN when accessing some sites.
This is happening to many legit sites lately. The reason I gathered was that one of the free cert providers has a server in their ranch that is not properly set up as valid cert provider/validator. Apologies if I mangled some terminology, but that was the gist of it. There are some theories that the failure in validation may not be being evenly applied based on politics or nature of the organization being validated, but I don’t know any more than the existence of that rumor. I only mention it because there could be motive by internet service providers to make VPNs harder as they get a lot of side money digesting information on where their customers go on the internet
the wifi is provided by my landlord so maybe, is there any way to find out?
you know of any other ways to tell if your protonvpn has been backdoored? fairly sure my androids were, which probably spread to my ubuntu 20 PC because of its stupid built in bluetooth.
on mobile the app, downloaded from fdroid, has all kinds of sketchy looking perms.
That’s not protonvpn man. You are being middle manned. Person giving you your wifi is stealing your info
That seems incredibly unlikely. If you got it from f-droid official repos, it should be safe. What permissions is it asking for?
Yeah perhaps this is something OP needs to talk to their landlord about.
https://ibb.co/BNpQ95x
https://ibb.co/8cQrCN2
https://ibb.co/sR6GF0v
https://ibb.co/BfLZQr0
https://ibb.co/nQccDDv
All from just Signal. Downloaded from fdroid. I know googles perms look like malware but all this , damn…
Okay I was thinking of my samsung. However my signal app on my new (old) pixel phone, again from fdroid as I followed the hardening android guide from r/privacylife . so these are mostly hidden system perms I can’t change. In the signal app I even have it turned off anything locations contacts etc. I’ll post pics.