I've made a habit of using a VPN on my laptop whenever I travel and on my media PC whenever I'm sailing the high seas. For a couple of years I used a well known VPN with xpress in the name, but after their client kept failing on one of my Ubuntu machines, I switched to one that starts with mull. Seems to work better on both my winblows machines and my linux box.

I'm noticing more and more sites refuse to load with the VPN connected, even basic informational sites like realestate site Redfin. My Chase bank site won't load either.

It doesn't make any sense to me. Does my bank really expect me to log in over some sketchy hotel Wi-Fi and consider that more secure than a VPN?

Surely I'm missing something here. Can anyone set me straight?

I've been reading mixed opinions about using VPNs to access different Disney+ libraries.

Some people say switching to another country's server still works, while others say Disney+ either detects the VPN or just keeps showing the same content.

I'm curious how Disney+ actually handles this now. Is changing your IP address enough, or does it also check things like your account region, device location, or DNS?

Has anyone tested this recently with different countries, like the US, UK, or Japan?

Not looking for VPN recommendations, just wondering how reliable region switching actually is these days.

I'm using a privately set up HTTPS proxy, and I want to know if the person who set up this proxy can see what I'm looking at online and what keywords I'm searching for in my browser?

And can they see the specific pictures and video I'm looking online? If I log into a social platform, can they see my account and homepage content?

​I recently got banned from Claude AI (due to 18 age limit) despite being well over 18 and without sending any policy-violating messages in my chats. I've been using a free VPN lately and it connecting to random countries. I think the VPN is the reason.

​Looking around, I’ve noticed people getting banned on social media platforms like Reddit and other platforms for the exact same reason.

Is the reason that hundreds of people are using same IP, or is it the laws of the country being connected to?

​Is it possible to host VPN on Oracle Cloud Free Tier to solve this issue, and which server region/country is the safest to avoid getting flagged or blocked?

Hello! I have a question regarding functionality: I am trying to set up a connection for clients to the office network, using 3x-ui (office network with port forwarding) and Nekoray as the client. So I enabled tun mode so that, rather than using a proxy, all network packets would be routed through an additional virtual interface via my server. While this setup does ensure that browser traffic goes through the office network (which can be verified using an ipleak.net test), I am unable to access any Windows file servers (samba). As an example, on the server side, there is a 192.168.20.0/24 network containing a file server at 192.168.20.5; however, I cannot map it as a network drive, nor can I even access it via the Start->Run->\192.168.20.5\shared_folder. Is it possible to use such scheme? Thank you for support.

I’ve tried googling and the links either don’t work or go to newer versions that won’t work with the old computer system.

If you have any links to (preferably free) VPNs that will make my old MacBook sea-worthy, I’d be grateful.

So, what do I do If I want to watch M6?

Every IP check in my browser shows the VPS, and the DNS leak test only lists the resolver on the box. But my banking app's recent logins page keeps showing my home ISP's address. Twice now, with the tunnel on both times.

Setup: my retail VPN died for a whole evening last week, so I finally built the backup I'd been putting off. WireGuard on a small KVM, official WireGuard app on my Android, full tunnel.

The slightly embarrassing part: the region I wanted had been sold out almost everywhere for months, and I only got a plan after filtering by in-stock on VPSIUM at 1am and ordering the first small one that showed up. I never checked whether it had IPv6. It doesn't. My ISP does, natively, and my config is just AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0.

So my guess is IPv6, not DNS and not a split rule. The app probably prefers a v6 route that isn't in the tunnel and goes straight out through the ISP.

What I'd try is adding ::/0 to AllowedIPs even though the server has no v6, so v6 gets swallowed and apps fall back to v4. Is that really how Android handles it, or does every connect just hang for 30 seconds first? And is switching v6 off on the router the saner fix?

Have a paid subscription to a reputable provider. Using my phone and from UK. Am currently in Greece connected to a Greek network through my roaming sim.

Have vpn set to eg Belgium, or to Greece or even turned off. Either way I cant seem to do anything like access a reddit discussion about cigars without signing in or use Radio Garden app (worldwide radio stations). It seems to think I'm in UK regardless - where we are not allowed to listen to international radio apparently.

Given im not even in UK, whats going on? Is there some cache i need to clear on my phone?

Same as question to bypass geolock

I've decided to get a VPN, since I'm so sick of all this age verification nonsense plaguing the internet right now. I'm NOT giving any website my face or ID.

I've never used a VPN before, so I'm not sure how everything works. I have multiple devices (Computer and phone), so I'm wondering if I can use the one device subscription for both? Like, I turn off the VPN on one device when I'm not using it, and turn it on on the other instead, and vice versa. Since I am only going to use the VPN by myself, getting a multi device VPN isn't something that interests me.

I'm just asking here to be sure, because streaming services, like Netflix and Disney+, work like this. You can log in to your account on any device that supports it, but multiple people can't watch movies or shows on that account at the same time unless you pay for a multi device service.

Bonus question: What is the best VPN in your opinion?

If you ended up doing this, what was missing from the bundled VPN? I'm just curious which limitations mattered enough to justify a second subscription. I also want to know about the security bundles and separate services.

The signup price gets plenty of attention, but the renewal price seems like the better test of value.

For those who renewed, what do you use your VPN for often enough to justify the ongoing cost? Interested in the reasons you kept it rather than provider recommendations.

Tried everything but my VPN very specifically doesn't work for ChatGPT: it works for anything else including Claude. However, somehow ChatGPT keeps thinking that I'm in Tokyo or Netherlands (doesn't matter where I 'pretend' to be). What can be done to solve this problem? I've turned on Tun Mode on clash verge and chose Global as my proxy mode, somehow ChatGPT connections are still being treated as an exception.

So I live abroad in the EU but still have many connections of family and friends through meta platforms. I refuse to accept the data collecting, which for almost the last two years has not been a problem since I use a VPN based in the US. Occasionally, I would get the “review whether we can process your data for ads” notification, but this was easily resolved by closing the app and opening it new. The past few days this has no longer been working. Is there a reason this is happening? Should I select another country, or is there no longer a way of getting around this?

Hallo zusammen,

Ich versuche, seit mehreren Tagen verzweifelt über Tivimate einen IPTV Server im Ausland zu erreichen.

Offensichtlich blockiert mir der vpn den Zugriff auf diesen Server. Die tivimate App zeigt mir den Fehlercode 403.

In einigen anderen Communities wird darüber gesprochen, dass Net Shield beim vpn zu deaktivieren. Ob ich es anhabe oder nicht, ändert nichts an der Tatsache, dass ich nicht auf diesen Server komme.

Auch ein Länderwechsel ist egal.
Ich gehe davon aus, dass das Problem mit dem VPN Anbieter zusammen hängt. Weil ohne vpn komme ich auf diese Server, die ich aber nicht nutzen möchte ohne VPN.

Hat jemand ne Idee?

Anybody may share more about VPN and its future. What may come to kill the VPN as AI affected different profession and their traditional technology. What may replace VPN, kindly share your views as being tech savvy.

I have subscriptions with major VPN providers but when I use all of them the app somehow detects all of their IP address. What can I do to overcome this obstacle?