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 :)

  • Peffse@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    I wonder if Windows Defender is parsing the hosts file and flagging specific entries. Perhaps your program knows what is flagged through trial & error, while I did more of an aggressive blanket approach.

    It’s the only thing I can think of.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I’m not quite certain at this point. LOL I’ve used HostsMan forever it seems and never gave it a second thought because it just worked. I also wonder if logging in to a local account vs your Microsoft account in Windows makes a difference.

      while I did more of an aggressive blanket approach

      IDK, my .host file contains 60,633 entries. Not sure you could get more aggressive than that. LOL

      I’m going to have to do some reading. This intrigues me.