Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven’t blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don’t break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what’s going on?

  • both on the free plan.

Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it’s already set in the browser anyway), it started working again :)

irmadlad
link
fedilink
14d

No doubt. Wasn’t throwing shade. Just relaying my experience. If one did not have a firewall in place or one to replace, Portmaster would be a good candidate.

Also because it is the most easy and intuitive to use for everyone. Already with a good default setting, blocking the most problematic trackings, means, it’s install and forget it or at least customize only some specific traffic from an app to be protected.

Create a post

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

  • 0 users online
  • 113 users / day
  • 519 users / week
  • 1.44K users / month
  • 4.49K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 4.28K Posts
  • 108K Comments
  • Modlog