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Get a free VPS from Oracle cloud in whatever region you want, run Wireguard on it. There, now you have a VPN that you control, and since it’s hosted by Oracle, and not a VPN company, there’s no way to “detect” it.
I assure you that's detectable. The VPN detector I know, classifies all cloud providers as VPN as a matter of course, because no normal user would be coming from a cloud network.
Like basically all cloud providers, Oracle publish their public-facing IP address ranges.
https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/General/Concepts/addressranges.htm
Many services block these because, as you are pointing out, standing up VPN tunnel routing on a cloud instance is sort of trivial. Cloud providers publish these ranges specifically so anyone can block them easily. If lemmy.world is not blocking Oracle Cloud already, it's only because they just haven't come around to it.
Or better, run your own instance, rather than a VPN.
Yup, good point. One can run a private instance for “selfish” reasons.