ISP still blocks sites after connecting to VPN

VPN
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I woke up this morning to find that my ISP has introduced ‘adult filters’ on my ISP - I rent my place so I’m guessing my landlord was sent a letter and either agreed or didn’t bother to do anything about it. I’ve contacted her about it.

Anyway, in the meantime I thought I’d use my VPN to connect to the sites that have been blocked (interestingly, porn sites have not been blocked but dating sites have). However, I’ve noticed that when I enable my VPN, connections to the dating sites still fail.

How is this possible? I assumed once I connected to my VPN provider, all requests would be handled by them and the ISP would not be able to filter them out.

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Go to this site when connected to your VPN. It will tell you what DNS servers you are using.

3

What DNS are you using? The ISPs?

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Not enough info to help. I have a suspicion that your setup is wrong.

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Thanks. I’m at work now, but I’ll try it when I get home.

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The VPN I use has its own DNS servers and says all lookups are performed through them.

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I’m using quite a commercial VPN setup (are we allowed to name names here?) so it’s basically a case of selecting which country you want to route through and clicking it on.

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The VPN application loads on startup and is set to automatically connect. It’s possible that I loaded my browser before it had finished connecting, but I think it’s unlikely. I’ll keep this in mind though, thanks.

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it shouldn’t be that easy. What OS, client, firewall, killswitch, browser, software are u using? You need to be waaaaaay more specific if you want advice.

The other answers are right, ur DNS is probably being pulled from your ISP

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I understand. The leading cause does seem to be DNS issues. Thanks for your help – I’ll come back with extra information if I need further advice.

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Fair enough. Best of luck!