same as title, recently got a new pc and installed my vpn from my thumb drive so i wouldnt connect to the internet at all without a VPN and i notice on this pc my connection gets blocked every time i try to go to reddit, which isnt often with fosscad being removed.

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      I’ve generally had good luck doing this. They do blanket ban the majority of big VPN data centers, but jumping around a bit for a minute usually gets around this.

      Though tbh my plan for today is to wipe and delete my account and set up Redlib.

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        You can’t log in via redlib, IIRC. It is great just to read, though. I used it all the time.

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          Oh yeah I know. It’s for the best to stop interacting with that cesspit so I have no problem going read-only lmao

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      That won’t matter. VPNs typically use a known set of IPs, and services like Reddit that are run by surveillance capitalism companies simply block those known ranges (see also YouTube, for example).

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        Then explain why if I get this error, I switch locations and don’t get it. I’ve been dodging this for 2 years.

        VPN blacklists are chasing a moving target. Only truly bad VPNs with few exit servers and IPs would manage to get fully blocked across any location.

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        i tend to have pretty good luck swapping around with mullvad. eventually there’s always one that works