Paid $40 for a VPN after my post about a local city council meeting got deleted by the ISP in Texas

Worked like a charm for 3 months until the VPN itself started blocking me from even visiting the forum I was trying to use it for, anyone else run into that weird loop?

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jaken2321d ago

Damn that's some next level BS right there. Your VPN started blocking you from the same forum you bought it to access? That's like paying a bouncer to let you in a club and then he starts turning you away at the door for no reason. The whole thing just creates this stupid loop where you're stuck trying to fix the fix. I ran into a similar thing with a residential proxy service I tried - it worked great for a few weeks then suddenly flagged my login attempts as suspicious activity from a 'known VPN exit node' which was literally their own IP pool. Makes you wonder if these companies are just using automated blocklists that eventually catch their own infrastructure. You might want to look into a shadowsocks setup or a self hosted VPS instead of relying on the big commercial VPNs that end up on every blocklist.

richardknight21d ago

Yeah but @jaken23 I actually see it the other way. VPN companies intentionally rotate IPs to avoid blocks, so the fact that one of their own IPs ended up flagged is more about the forums being overly aggressive with their blocks. It's not the VPNs fault, it's the forum using a service like MaxMind or whatever that just dumps entire IP ranges without checking.