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Hello! Very interesting analytical and investigative work by Windscribe disclosing ties (even hidden ones) between VPN companies, publishers, review web sites. Click on node icons to read more details. Very sinister situation at a glance. Note for example how Crossrider (now Kape), well known malware company co-founded by a member of israeli Defense Forces Unit 8200, nowadays controls major VPNs and review web sites: https://embed.kumu.io/9ced55e897e74fd807be51990b26b415#vpn-company-relationships/control-d Kind regards

Open a ticket and check with Sales re a 10-device plan. Yes, the Air wg configs from their Config Generator work fine in the MacOS wireguard app. Not sure re your DNS/captcha question. I can't see how it would help but don't know that it wouldn't. I use alternative DNS servers and still get captchas and blocks, but whether I see more or fewer of these than I would using Air DNS, I have no idea. (Aside: I set mine up long before Air offered the super DNS customizations that they do now and am too lazy and risk averse to try changing back and maybe flattening the house of cards I have set up.)

I haven't been there as long as some of us but I haven't looked back since. I just bought another 3 years. Personally, I think that if you are a minimum tech orientated and don't care about an app that shows you your tunnel on a map, AirVPN is the best. There are quite a few CAPTCHA problems and a few site that refuse traffic from their server but or I hop to the next or I just put a route to not go through the VPN. Thanks AirVPN!

As long as the solution for OP's issue is reported here afterwards, it's not a problem.

@Staff At the moment I found a solution I like. I enter desktop environments both with airvpn and my normal account at the same time and then switch between the environments. Switching is quite fast on Linux and it helps me focus on which is which. It resolves a problem I met which I did not look into much, maybe you like to hear it. The airvpn account apparently does not get properly configured by the installer or maybe I made some error during installation, because airvpn account via cuckoo can't run any de based application on the desktop of someone else. [virtualized Fedora 38 here].

It is indeed a severe problem and I don't see a way how this could be fixed. If you chose to separate the IPC/storage namespaces too then you'd need to take full control over application settings and how it's launched to ensure separation. The main vector here are default protocol handlers. Click an http:// link in any other program and your default browser will start in the default namespace, not that other one. What else can you do, intercept all program launches? Linux doesn't have the same concept of matching an ".exe name" as on Windows. Edit: I just saw that Staff replied. The per-user separation is a reasonable decision here. = = = I have a similar issue using a custom namespaced setup with Wireguard but in a different way. Firefoxes' DNS lookups inside the namespace will work until the computer goes to sleep. After waking up Firefox will be unable to resolve any hosts until Fx is restarted. I have not tried loading websites per IP, maybe Firefox actually loses all connectivity in this case. Arch Linux. Just a guess, did you put a per-namespace resolv.conf file where it belongs? Somewhere around mans/arch wiki or systemd text there was a proposal of a standard to have per network namespace resolver configuration. Maybe Firefox when it doesn't run DoH looks at the wrong resolv.conf and tries to contact the local DNS resolver from another namespace.

Context: https://www.techradar.com/news/nord-security-snaps-up-atlas-vpn I don't know what's worse here. Unauthenticated web interface lack of CSRF that would prevent such blind requests the web interface on a localhost port that browsers still allow access to without asking any permission-related questions Regardless of the current fix, websites will be able to find out if the user is a user of Atlas VPN, without any IP matching. And in the case it's used by the client, it's a giant red flag of qualification, business direction and security practices at Atlas and Nord as a whole. Now that Nord positions itself as a cybersecurity company especially in the B2B segment, I can't explain how they don't have processes in place to audit the design choices of their acquired companies. This further reinforces my position to avoid them entirely.

Who are they going to go after? The users or the companies? If the user registered with real email or phone number, they probably aren't the scope of this. Without a link to the bill it's just guessing. Guessing further: Social network companies - they will introduce VPN IP blocklists and fined if an offending user cannot be traced back due to VPN use. VPN companies registered in France - if their IP comes up and they can't help trace back the user = fined too. It's all very simple, in a functioning legislative body you can quickly prototype what kind of law it will be and the possible targets based on logic. Because it must have a certain goal it tries to achieve and be reasonable in the way of finding who to make responsible for *whatever*. Most companies aren't gonna lose/close/risk their business and abide by the new rules, like in the meme "yes, honey" Mark my words, these rapid pan-european developments are the riders of the apocalypse World War 3. This is the preparation step to control the information once the disaster strucks. We've seen it happen in the past 10 years eastwards. Now it's happening near you.

Thank you for this hint! I was actually using the wrong servers (dig -x alldig ANY ch.all.vpn.airdns.org @dns1.airvpn.org +short). Using the config generator fixed this for me.........

NordVPN? Those who had servers cracked no more than a few years ago because they ignored to check IPMI interfaces? 🤣 By golly, we live in a world where the head of the European Central Bank is a convicted person found guilty in court for negligence in finance-related crimes when she was Minister of Finance in France, a world where the planet's largest company offering privacy-oriented VPN services favored clickware and adware spreading and infections, so NordVPN cucks recycling themselves as security experts is clearly a very proper and natural action. 😏 I realize now I opened this topic on the wrong forum, I wanted to open it in "Other VPN competitors" and not here! Moderators help!