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What VPN are you using? (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up.

I use Proton because it has a "suite" of products under a single subscription, but that benefit is losing it's allure as some of their products are pretty shitty from a user experience perspective, their customer support is atrocious, and they don't seem to pay any attention to what their users actually want.

Does anyone track known VPN servers? Is there a specific provider that causes less problems? Does anyone test different VPNs for detection?

Thinking about cancelling my subscription and moving to Mullvad.

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 6 months ago (13 children)

um I don't use a vpn. Please tell me why I should use a VPN. It's just something that costs money that seems unnecessary. I have nothing to hide. Why are you all hiding behind VPNs? What am I missing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

@[email protected]

"I have nothing to hide ..."

Nice story, bro.

When you post a real photograph of yourself, wife, kids, and all your social security numbers and bank account numbers, along with a complete history of all video rentals and library books, and your private confessions of folly, vice, and sin-- post all that on your Lemmy profile, then I'll believe you have nothing to hide.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My wife? Gross! I'm heterosexual woman. and everything else you described, except for social security numbers, sounds a lot like Facebook. Which I don't use.

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