I get blocked from the forum when I try to access it using a VPN (Mozilla VPN), even when I am logged in. This is a real nuisance for me. I don't suppose there is a way around this besides turning the VPN everytime I want to access the forum and then navigating back to the page I was trying to reach? Do others find this a problem? Is it something that the site's owners are likely to change?
I get blocked from the forum when I try to access it using a VPN
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SpyderTracks
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Almost all "free" VPNs are used by scammers and spammers, and if nefarious activity is logged by any website and the web engineers have to report that IP address as suspicious activity, that gets logged in worldwide internet databases which all domains check for their security blacklist rules.
There’s nothing you can do about it other than to use a decent VPN. Obviously scammers will tend to use free vpn over paid so the issue is much more prevalent on free VPNs.
Its not a PCS problem, it’s your choice of VPN
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On a decent VPN you can also set split tunneling and whitelists where you can set an application that’s exclude from the VPN or individual websites that don’t go down the VPN, so you should never have to keep manually disabling it. A lot of web sites, particularly forums will block any VPN by default.
Moral of the story is... "Free" VPNs are not actually VPN's in the first place as they track and sell all your data, they don't protect against any DNS leaks, and lots of other things. Even paid VPNs, the only "Real" VPN's are ones that operate outside of the Five, Nine and Fourteen Eyes agreements, prove they don't actually keep logs, and have proper DNS protection.
There are only a few "Real" VPNs out there that are worth it, Nord being one of the best.
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sck451
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Mozilla VPN isn't free; it doesn't even have a free version. It's essentially a repackaged Mullvad, but where a proportion of the profits goes to the Mozilla Foundation to support Firefox, Thunderbird etc. Mullvad is an excellent, top rate VPN, so Mozilla's is too.
I'm actually using it right now to make this post: it doesn't seem blocked to me.
I'm actually using it right now to make this post: it doesn't seem blocked to me.
SpyderTracks
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With VPNs, you connect to a server, that server has an IP address tied to its geographical location. VPNs will have servers all over the world, you switch between them for different geographies or based on load.
The server @David689 is on has obviously been flagged for nefarious activity.
But that IP won't just be yours, it will be any other users on that server, could be 10's of thousands.
So try a different server.
Also, be sure you are definitely using your @David689 account, and not another one by accident as duplicate accounts aren't allowed on the forum and get blocked.
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SpyderTracks
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I did assume it was a free VPN just because it was mozilla, thought it was one of those free addons to the browser, but yeah, it's paid and totally separate from Firefox, and doesn't log data, although is bound by the 14 eyes, so it's not a true VPN as it has to hand over any records by law.
But it does have split tunnelling functionality and whitelisting, so you can set that up too for any sites that are blocked. Rather than whitelist individual addresses, I personally just split tunnel with a secondary browser and have any VPN restricted traffic running on that browser.
But definitely one of the better options out there, should have guessed being Mozilla, my bad.
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