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What VPN are you using? (feddit.nl)

submitted 4 months ago by helenslunch@feddit.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up.

I use Proton because it has a "suite" of products under a single subscription, but that benefit is losing it's allure as some of their products are pretty shitty from a user experience perspective, their customer support is atrocious, and they don't seem to pay any attention to what their users actually want.

Does anyone track known VPN servers? Is there a specific provider that causes less problems? Does anyone test different VPNs for detection?

Thinking about cancelling my subscription and moving to Mullvad.

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[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

try to connect to newer servers. solves these kind of issues often but ofc not always.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you know which ones are "new"? I've tried to switch servers but there are literally hundreds and I can't try them all.

[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

by its name. the higher the number the newer the server.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this just a cat-and-mouse or whack-a-mole situation? If the people who create these block lists can also see the new IPs just by having that service, they can also add them to block lists.

[–] sasquash@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

yes. I guess there is no other way then adding new severs and changing IP's regularly.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

I see, thanks for the tip!