Why do some privacy friendly sites block access through VPNs?

I understand Facebook throwing a fit when I try to log in through a VPN, or some other mass surveillance company. But why does Proton throw captchas at me? I’m using their own VPN. Why does Libretube just not work at all if I’m connected to Proton VPN? Every time I want to access it, I have to turn off my VPN, which sort of defeats the point. I can enable Tailscale for custom DNS filtering, and it works fine, but I prefer having the full Proton VPN running 24/7.

Shouldn’t privacy focused tools have ways to work together rather than bashing heads like this?

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Never had this issue. Can you explain how exactly you’re facing these problems? What URl for example you’re trying to visit where you have issues and what kind of connections you’re using on your VPN.

This should not happen at all and I’ve never faced any issues when on or off a VPN with Proton.

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Wich protonVPN server are you using ?

Some of them are blacklisted, but for the proton website, that insane !

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To answer the topic title question, VPNs are used by malicious actors to attack servers and their various (vulnerable) endpoints, so IP address ranges used by VPNs are often blocked by the server administrator or (third-party) web application firewalls at the expense of legitimate clients/users. This phenomenon also extends to the Tor network.

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