So today ExpressVPN does not work at all in Russia. Tried multiple servers and countries, nothing. Checked for updates and installed. Still nothing. My subscription ends June 10 and there’s no way to pay and I’m only getting canned responses with no real attempt to help. Qiwi and UnionPay are blocked. No other methods work. What is a good alternative to ExpressVPN so I don’t have to deal with them anymore? I don’t mind paying for a service if it’s going to work and they’ll work with me to get the money to them. BTC, Sberbank, whatever.
Fresh news! Just now i connected to Austria, Sydney-2. Everything works fine for now. ISP is ER Telecom.
I’m in the states on a Mac and it’s not working at all either.
Same thing. It stopped working yesterday approximately at 20:00 Moscow time.
Yep, it’s completely dead and with their website also, government found a way to block them. So either expressvpn will find a way to avoid this block or we should switch to another services.
Did it work before?
It stopped working for me more than a year ago.
The whole VPN chase is ridiculous. Here in Russia I use it so I can watch news/ movies from the US. And when I am in the US or Mexico I use it so I keep updated with Russian news. We as a society in general have failed miserably, pretending to be kids playing in our own sandboxes.
Regarding payments. Ask them if they can accept Capitalist, YooMoney, Epay.com, etc.
F#$% EU and Biden and all their s#1tty sanctions. I didn’t create Generation X to end up like a joke or imitation of Stalinism!
Same on my end. Around a week ago I started having major issues even on desktop, where I previously had next to none. Before, my biggest issues on PC were sudden speed flops on commonly used servers.
And then I tried to use the goddamn VPN yesterday, only to see that I cannot connect to what seems to be any server. Especially those they highly promote in support tickets.
And support basically goes: try another network.
I need this one to work, I can’t yoyo internet providers. The ones available report even bigger issues with connection anyway.
Is there any update on this? I’m moving to Russia end of month and it would suck if I get a whole year sub only to have it be completely useless when I’m there.
Just letting y’all know that Egypt and Indonesia also work occasionally, in addition to Sydney-2.
Yes, Sydney2 works for me. Thanks!
Thanks! Sydney-2 works well.
It’s been working great for me until yesterday.
Yeah I don’t understand why they filter sites from the US when the US is not doing anything to impress me much. The US is making themselves look bad. Let them.
Yeah, I’m GenX too. I will find you the screenshot of the paywall. I tried to create an account on all of the ones they suggested but they all say the same, can’t create an account with a bank that does not support dual currency (in my case, Sberbank).
Here’s my last email from them regarding payment options.
“Thank you for writing back to us.
I have checked and it appears that we seem to have exhausted all possible resolutions at the moment to no avail.
For now, we highly recommend that you try accessing our order page at a later time.”
So basically, too bad, good bye.
Nord stopped working completely when Russia targeted it specifically. That’s why I switched.
It’s working again, sort of, primarily Australia -Sydney 2. I have not successfully found any US servers yet since the outage. That limits you to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. But you won’t be streaming from places like Hulu, Tubi, Freevee, etc. I just tried all of my usual US servers and they failed. I also haven’t found anything beyond Sydney 2.
Today Sidney-2 stopped working as well