Websites and apps are more and more blocking VPN connections or requiring many captchas to use their sites.
How can VPNs adapt to overcome these challenges? Are newer technologies like SPN or dVPNs able to circumvent them? What is the future of protecting our IP addresses?
Ironically, I think online ID/age verification laws might actually increase the amount of VPN use among normies, which might then make websites think twice about blocking VPN connections altogether.
We should always have Tor.
I don’t think there is data supporting more websites banning VPN users. But they do Captcha a lot.
Ironically, some websites would block VPN users but not Tor. I had this today on an advertising websites (doing research on advertising).
Proton VPN is pretty capable of bypassing VPN blocks for me. They have so many servers that it’s impossible for one to block them all.
To answer your question, IPV6 is actually a huge silver lining. It makes it trivial for a VPN operator, or a large privacy tool provider (like Invidious) to frequently rotate IPs to circumvent IP blocks.
I use Mullvad VPN and I can tell you that Reddit always succeeds in blocking me with the VPN on no matter the country or server I choose. However, Tor tor is allowed on the website for some odd reason. Go figure…
Personally i dont mind captcha if its cloudflare turnstile, the one where you click a checkbox or the anubis captcha, where the browser do some small pow mining.
But google captcha with its endless looping traffic lights, fire hyrant, busses and shit, and hcaptcha with its rotating hand pointing to donkey, that both are really annoying af.
Many sites are now migrating to cf turnstile though. On one hand its convenient for us the users, on another hand that turned cf into the behemoth on low level internet same as google are the behemoth of front facing internet. Hopefully cf never turn evil.
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Proton VPN could be blocked by websites if they blacklist ASN AS206815 and related IP blocks
Seems like your ASN is a ISP of some sort, so a website doing this would get lot of false positive and will hurt their traffic. AS206815 United Fiber to the home LTD details - IPinfo.io