So many sites now detect a vpn and refuse to function

VPN
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Tons of sites and apps. Axs. Reddit often blocks me as well.

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Reddit, Youtube blocking video playback, both if not logged in. These ar two main ones.

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I use a hosted app server, it wont let me do ftp/ssh etc on vpn.
My bank site won’t work, that is maybe due to security.

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It’s not. The common commercial GeoIP DB providers have databases of anonymizers like VPN services, proxy services, and cloud provisioning (AWS EC2, Linode VPS, etc). For example, https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-anonymous-ip-database

There’s no reverse DNS lookup, that’s too slow to be practical.

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Is there a way to get around this?

There’s no silver bullet, there’s two main block reasons, 1 is blacklist from negative activities (port scanning etc) 2 is blanket vpn IPlists.

The following may help. No guarantees

  • Try other exit nodes from your Vpn provider. Less popular places are less likely to be usage blocked

  • Better VPN clients often have a setting for using a double hop via a socks server they monitor for negative activity - will be slower but less likely to be blocked

  • Use obscure VPN providers that aren’t part of the blanket IP scraping blocklist (there’s risks with this you rely on your vpn to not be a bad actor, obscure ones dont have a reputation to lose)

  • Use VPS - downsides are it’s not much different to using your home address, it’s a single address attached to your activity, can also get blocked due to being a datacentre address

  • If on linux try setting your browser to report agent as windows (some sites block linux, weirdly)

  • split tunnel with a separate browser (to reduce fingerprinting) this exposes your real address but only to that site (last resort obviously)

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Time to switch to distributed VPN’s

I’ve been using Mysterium and never had any such issues, so far!

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I had a cloud setup in Azure, AWS, etc where I ran an OpenVPN server and paid for a public IP. I used that as a VPN for a while until they banned me for torrenting. I got greedy :slight_smile:

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Any chance you could tell us the name of those two VPNs?

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By “average YouTubers” you must mean redditors. JFC.

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I am more concerned by sites now detecting I use a vpn or proxy and disabling things like remote access/ftp/ssh etc. There are valid use cases for all of these and it used to work in the past but now these are used for sailing the high seas much more so even the valid use cases don’t work.

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VPNs are a bit like a game of whack-a-mole. A streaming service may find a VPNs server and put it on a block list, and a day or 2 later the VPN provider will have worked that out and will change the identity of their servers.

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You probably just have a shitty VPN. I’m posting this from my VPN just fine.

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I’m using a VPN on Reddit all the time. Works great!

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just get any ad blocker extension and use nextdns, no need for a vpn (and vpns can’t even do that)

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It’s annoying when my searches at Google come to a stop, and me having to verify first. Changing to Bing does prevent this. But at times, it’s Google’s results that I really want.

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Wait till you find out your midtier VPN is anything but private

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Which service are you using?

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You would need to rent a dedicated personal proxy in the country you choose. I use myprivateproxy. Its like $1.99 a month
On ios: i use shadowrocket to route the traffic through the proxy in and i can appear in a different country

If using android, you can load your personal
Proxy using an app called ‘college
Proxy’ (this is free).

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How are its speeds compared to conventional VPN?

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How long ago was that? I feel like cloud ips are blocked these days as well