submitted 4 months ago by Grangle1@lemm.ee to c/protonprivacy@lemmy.world

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I'm just mostly commenting to vent frustration with what I'm seeing this past week as a sharp spike in captchas and sites straight up blocking Proton VPN IPs. Proton is slowed down, captcha'd and blocked at a far higher rate than any such behavior I encountered with Nord when I used them. You can do all you want to protect privacy but when you hold yourself out as the big "privacy" VPN service everyone's gonna be suspicious that you're gonna be the service that bad actors use and block all your traffic. I know I should also figure this will happen but I would also figure there would be more effort to prevent it from happening. I use Proton VPN because I enjoy Proton's other services but if this keeps up I feel it may get to be unusable for me.

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[-] MisanthropiCynic@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

In my city it results in them using pirated official documents they can’t verify the accuracy of and using those numbers to create public policy and calculate taxes because the official sites block even the non VPN traffic. And it’s not like a public official is going to go to the trouble to contact the website administrator and get it done right… They get the numbers wherever they can and that’s what our council members use

It was really fun when someone had not converted metric to imperial units for sewage calculations

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