u/ztirf44

When I turn off ProtonVPN it works. Is z.ai so bad? Their privacy policy seemed to me is pretty much the same as any other of the data harvesters.

home on  main via ❄  impure (shell)
❯ dig chat.z.ai

; <<>> DiG 9.20.24 <<>> chat.z.ai
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 47790
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chat.z.ai.                     IN      A

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
explanation.invalid.    10800   IN      TXT     "Proton DNSBL/1b"

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 10.2.0.1#53(10.2.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sat Jul 04 18:09:56 CEST 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74