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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    for example: Last time I was on Win11

    Interesting. I must live in bizarro world. I wonder if it has to do with Win11’s new advertising platform. Were you running a local account or hooked up to the mothership? I’m running W10 on a local account only. Additionally, I’m blocking the world (almost - lol) in my host file.

    I just ran Get-AppxPackage and besides the runtimes, wsl, Microsoft.VCLibs, NET.Native.Frameworks, Microsoft.Windows.Photos (blocked from calling home), I don’t see anything that would throw a red flag. I am definitely intrigued.

    • PiraHxCx@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      My father loves '00s and late '90s RTS games, so I built him a Win7 PC. I got a bit jealous of how tight its running lol
      Pre-built systems, though, come with way waaay more bloat. To get a free Windows license included in the product, they shove tons of shit in. My mother had a Win10 LG All-in-One, and I recently reset and cleared it to give to my niece, I had to remove a lot of crap, but it was way worse in the Win11 Dell All-in-One she got to replace it. I’ve never seen anything like that, shit came with Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Candy Crush… and, worst of all: McAfee. This Win11 laptop I’m using right now came with Norton hehe - but those Bing News, Bing Weather, Bing Maps, Bing This, Bing That, all the Xbox stuff, which you need to remove through command prompt, they were in all of them. However, I’ve never tested a Win10 or Win11 that wasn’t on a pre-built device, my guess is that if you bought a license (or acquired some other way, I don’t judge hehe) and installed the OS yourself it is way cleaner… but also surely Win11 is worse than Win10 on bloat.

      edit: I had written Avast but it was actually McAfee, it wasn’t even full license and it expired, also it constantly hijacked the browser and changed the search engine to Bing… pure malware behavior, crazy stuff.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I know, it’s normal that after a good Windows release always follow an crappy one, independent from the bloatware which it always have. W7 good, W8 crap, W10 good, W11 crap…, but at least, for an advanced user possible always to gut all of these trash and even eliminate this crappy Fisher Price UI in W11, which try badly to imitate the UI of an Mac, eliminating, I don’t know why, a lot of setting to customize the UI, needing scripts to do it.