I haven’t been able to post anything for the last two days. I don’t know if I was banned for a bit or not since I received no notice or warning.

If it wasn’t a ban what happened?

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    2 months ago

    I cant post if I have protonvpn running, or at least if Im connected to certain proton servers. It could be along those lines - whatever IP you were coming from might be blocked, probably via cloudflare?

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      2 months ago

      I have surfshark but I only run it when I’m torrenting. (since that’s all VPN’s are pretty much good for nowadays.)

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        VPNs are very useful for many different purposes, just nothing (except torrenting) which you need.

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          2 months ago

          List them. 90% of websites I visit have either reduced features (ie; can’t post or comment) or completely block any access to them when using a VPN.

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            I don’t think I’ve ever had that issue except for some streaming stuff.

            You can search online instead of demanding I list reasons.

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              2 months ago

              You’re the one who made the argument that there were plenty of uses. The onus is on you to back up your suppositions. Not me.

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                I’m not who you originally asked, but one of the things other than torrenting that I use a VPN for is bypassing arbitrary geo-restrictions on websites. A lot of (mostly US) websites don’t allow you to access them if you aren’t in the country, or in some cases, if you don’t live in the right state.

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                  I’ve used it for that too, but even that’s going away. Pretty soon I think ISP’s (or governments) will clamp down on VPN’s. Or they will make the argument that if you want to use a VPN, then you can only use “THEIR” VPN