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.

  • telep@lemmy.ml
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    8 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. pinging around instances helps with avoiding outages as well. you can find active instances here on the uptime monitor.

    otherwise, stealth should work just fine if u turn on webscraping mode. I have been using it since the reddit changes with only very occasional issues, as similar to you I have some quams with alternative reddit clients.1000018448

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlOP
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      8 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·
        8 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 🙏