submitted 6 months ago by helenslunch@feddit.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

I would avoid trying to make sure you use the "official instance" as it kind of works against the projects purpose of decentralizing web requests.

I would but I didn't know where to find them.

you can find active instances here on the uptime monitor

Thanks

stealth should work just fine if u turn on webscraping mode

Nope

Geddit also doesn't do anything but a constant loading indicator.

[-] telep@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

oh damn I see sorry u can't get the apps to work I guess I'll do a little digging on my side. in the mean time I hope I've been at least somewhat helpful haha 🙏

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 6 months ago

You have been, thank you.

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