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
    1·
    22 hours ago

    Well, Portmaster is the best Firewall and traffic monitoring app out there

    I spent about a week and a half with Portmaster just to see what the hype was. I’ll have to say I was underwhelmed. I realize it has a big fan base, so if it works for you, awesome. Git Sum! It does have a lot of bells and whistles, and combines a lot of things into one package, but I’ve been so long with my stand alone pFsense instance, it’d almost have to give me a blowie to get me to switch.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      2·
      20 hours ago

      Well, to anyones preferences. Every defense is valid and has it’s + and -. It’s irrelevant if you use Portmaster, PiHole, pFsense or anything else, important if it works to show the middlefinger to the big brother corporations, what all these do.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        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.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          1·
          11 hours ago

          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.