I'm in London and cannot connect to Protonmail, my two factor security, my VPN, the Tor network... is this the new normal in the UK? This is really, really weird to me.
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@rwg This sounds more like a local connectivity issue (ISP, DNS filtering, or network restrictions) rather than a nationwide policy change. If multiple privacy tools fail at once, it鈥檚 often worth checking your network settings or switching connections.
@rwg No idea. Guess I'll be able to test it out next month.
Will open the Proton Mail app then. Not really using Proton as I have all my e-mail on own domains. Actually, also go HCCnet mail which isn't really being used.
February last year I had issues with VPN back to the home network. Don't recall last February.
But, curious.
update: was able to connect to Tor. It took a while, though.
Proton and my 2FA both show "TLS errors," as if the certs aren't trusted by the ISP.
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@[email protected] Are you using a wifi hotspot somewhere? They're often configured really badly in the UK in my experience. If you're using mobile, that sounds stranger.
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@mavnn it's pretty much all wifi hotspots at Goldsmiths. They seem very much set up to block a bunch of things. I'm accessing all of it through the Tor browser now....
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@[email protected] Yeah, there was a craze at one point in the uk of trying to configure hotspots to do all kinds of weird things, like try and take over your DNS, or prevent you from 'abusing the service' by using streaming services or - evil of evils - VPNs. You might be downloading anything over that VPN! I even once had one try and ask me to accept a certificate, presumably so it could man in the middle me to make sure I was following the hotspot usage policy or something.
Given that most coffee shops don't refit their wifi hotspots very often, a lot of them are still around.
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