No VPN anymore? Fairphone 4 e/OS 3.0.1

After installing the e/OS 3.0 it is not possible anymore to start th VPN

Does anyone have any idea why?

In the settings i get different results, pic.1 VPN not possible to activate, pic.2 it seem that the VPN is working. But …

… when i did a cross check, the IPv4 & IPv6 be displayed somewhere in Germany even when i change the location for example to Hungary, pic.3

On the FP5 I do not have this problem, on the other hand I do not use it because it is not a VPN, it is the name given, but it is simply a navigation via TOR (that you are not properly protected and you can be found without big difficulty).

The best will be to go through a VPN which in addition offers the tunnel via Tor.

e-3.0 should be updated to e-3.0.1. I suggest you do not do more of this till after your update. Please check for it in your System Updater.

Actually it is the e\3.0.1 on the phone, i was just a lil bit lazy to type all🤷‍♂️

Did you already try to…

  1. Switch OFF APs hide my IP
  2. Delete AP-VPN
  3. Switch ON hide my IP
  4. Allow AP to reestablish its VPN
    …?

No other VPN active via some other app that uses the VPN- interface of the device, right?

That makes complete sense because the VPN-interface of the device is not used by AP as long as the specific VPN that AP establishes (and needs) in order to hide your IP (via TOR-network) is OFF (pic 1).

Also: the fake my location function of AP is independent from hide my IP (and does not rely on TOR) - TOR exit (thus IP) in say Belfast would not automatically mean fake-location showing Belfast as well.

https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/advanced_privacy