How we can go around sites blocking vpn's?

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Hello, I see that more and more sites start blocking VPN’s or adblockers and I seen some governments like Germany want to block them. How we can go around that? Residential proxies? I seen it works from some less known providers but not all and those are often with less privacy friendly policies (like logging). Are there any other solutions?

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It’s a cat and mouse game, there is no real solution regarding commercial VPN providers. One thing that you could do is to build your own VPN, e.g. using a VPS located in a reasonably privacy-friendly place that does not enforce age verification or other similar restrictions (so not the UK). It will all come down to how “good” the IP you get is.

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I have troubles with Reddit blocking me. I don’t post on it but often when I search for something there are Reddit results listed and I’m blocked.

Since I’m using Startpage as a search engine, I click on the ‘Visit in anonymous view’ and that works. It continues to work with Reddit’s own internal search engine. It is essentially, though, just a vpn or proxy in the web broswer page, so I imagine it will be blocked at some point too. For now it works and it probably works for other sites too.

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Right now coffee shops like Starbucks or really any publicly available wifi should be good.

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In some limited ways, the Internet Archive can be useful for workarounds.

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What worked for me is setting shadowsocks and DAITA on on mullvad. It seems to work on all but the streamers. For that I’m trying out NYM VPN for now. Some servers work on NYM for streaming content.

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How would Shadowsocks or DAITA make a difference? Isn’t your IP address the same?

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Yes, for me Reddit just shows a page saying ‘we detected suspicious activity, you need to log in’ it’s so annoying.

Has anyone browsing Youtube with an American IP noticed that it would block you from seeing some videos by saying “stop using VPN or a proxy to continue”? I’m guessing maybe this is because, if a user is actually in USA (or UK, or any other area with age laws), sees this, gets off the VPN, then they would hit them with the age verification request

In general, I believe the VPN services as we know them now are doomed, because of the age verif, but obviously not only. It will take time for sure, but people will have to come up with other solutions. Internet itself as we know it today will not exist in a few years (emphasis on ‘as we know it today’)