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Why is privacy a luxury (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by trilobite@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been noticing over la last few years that is is becoming more and more difficult to login to accounts, whether a bank account, a membership account, sometimes even browsing websites for shopping, through my VPN server. Is this just my impression or is there something going on now whereby there are services that keep list of VPN servers that are then sold to backs so that these parties can keep out anyone from trying to login via a VPN. It feels like the general consensus is VPN=malicious rather than "VPN="this guy is just trying to protect his privacy". I use AIRVPN but was wondering if there are VPN services that are more sophisticate and try to circumvent these VPN server blocks? It becoming a real pain to the point I'm wondering what it the point of paying fro a VPN is I'm finding myself having to login through my ISP IP rather than my VPN IP.

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 points 3 days ago

On a certain level, privacy always was a luxury. Through most of human history, you lived bumcheek to jowl with othet people. The trick is, now it's a different beast. Corporations have the ability to be much more powerful in their invasions. As for your specific situation, there are some VPNs that try to hide that you are using a VPN. I think proton has something like that. I forget what it's called. And you could technically go VPN on VPS and get a much easier time but you'd have to switch it out all the time if you wanted anonymous-at-server browsing, and you'd have to pay for the privilege which comes back to privacy as luxury.