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Anyone else getting bounced from mainstream websites with Mullvad VPN? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Dop@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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EDIT: Thank you all for your help, I guess I'll have to keep changing location, filling captcha and occasionally allow an exception. Keeping ones internet activity even remotely private requires effort, even with good tools.

Hi,

After reading time and again about how Mullvad VPN is the best VPN out there, I decided to give it a try and got myself an account & credit for a month worth of trial.

However after a couple days of use on my mobile (I also use Mullvad Browser), I'm getting bounced from many mainstream website.

Is this normal? Any settings I should adjust?

Cheers

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In my years of using mullvad (before they took away port forwarding) I found probably half a dozen websites that blocked me based on that but it may be more common now. Often I found it was easy to get around it using Tor. Some of the smaller and better-run sites might fix the problem if you report it to them through the proper channels.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Which do you use now? I know a lot of VPNs don’t support port forwarding.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Currently on Azire. There aren't many left and I wanted to support one of the slightly less well-known ones. It works well enough.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Azire looks great ! I'm interested on why you choose azire over protonVPN?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

Aside from not wanting to rely on the same one as everyone else in the world, setting up port forwarding on proton looks unreasonably complicated.

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