Piracy shield in Italy - unavoidable even with a VPN?

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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

"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

Per maggiori informazioni visiti il sito www.agcom.it"

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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https://browserleaks.com/dns

And you need to configure protonvpn correctly so it uses their DNS. In the VPN world this is known as a 'DNS leak'.

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