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Reddit blocks it. Very annoying. Edit: when not logged in.
Doesn't block it for me.
Weird! Every Mullvad server I’ve ever used is blocked by Reddit.
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#14Q for Mullvad users: How often is access trough Mullvad VPN blocked by sites?
Often enough.
Some Mullvad locations will cause Google to throw up excessive captchas. Others will cause reddit and imgur to 403 your response.
For most places, not a problem, but some WAFs are explicitely blocking certain known IPs.
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#15Great service. I particularly like that you can connect to their network without redirecting all traffic and only selectively use different SOCKS5[1] endpoints[2] for different browser profiles.
Ad-blocking adblock.dns.mullvad.net DNS[2] is quite nice for the mobile as well.
[1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/socks5-proxy
[2] every server has its socks proxy address listed https://mullvad.net/en/servers
[3] https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
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#16> "Encrypted DNS Proxy and adding ShadowSocks for WireGuard to enhance obfuscation for customers that truly need it."
Seems like the user base is wider than what would be addressed by the most basic use of VPN. Mullvad would then serve a greater purpose than what many, or at least I, would be aware of.
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#18Q for Mullvad users: How often is access trough Mullvad VPN blocked by sites?
Often if you're on a bad node that has been rate-limited, usually connecting to a different node in the region helps. However VPN blocking very often and more frequent especially this year, it seems like walls are going up everywhere. Side note: one of Mullvad's Miami servers is blocked by HN, I have to switch nodes if I land on that one because "Sorry" message.
> Side note: one of Mullvad's Miami servers is blocked by HN, I have to switch nodes if I land on that one because "Sorry" message.
I frequently hit "Sorry" messages when opening a few HN links in quick succession through Mullvad too. I suppose the IPs have been flagged as potentially malicious.
Not sure what it takes for that to happen though; my server that archives every post made on HN has yet to get banned or heavily ratelimited, it just hits a 429 every once in a while.
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#19Q for Mullvad users: How often is access trough Mullvad VPN blocked by sites?
Most Cloudflare sites throw up captchas, switching to other Mullvad servers every hour does not help anymore. Reddit blocks completely. Many other YC funded startups block Mullvad VPN (I miss Paul Graham's influence, don't you?). Port forwarding was removed by Mulled company so less bittorrent peers. All magnet link search engines and 90% torrent sites block Mullvad, even though these sites advertise VPN.
Enshittification is nearly ubiquitous now [1].