Need an affordable residential and secure proxy (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by Wolfie@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I tend to play Team Fortress 2. It's a rather old game. The server I play on used to allow anyone to connect. Later on, it kicked me (sometimes) because it detected me originating from one of MullvadVPN's IP addresess. They seem to have updated the blacklist list so it always seems to detect me using a VPN. I just don't want to share my public IP with them.

Is there a clever way around this? I feel like all the residential proxies tend to be quite pricey compared to a normal VPN

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[-] Zooma46@feddit.org 12 points 4 months ago

I don't use Mullvad myself, but I recently browsed privacyguides.org, which says the following:

Custom server IPs: To counter IP-blocking, you can request custom server IPs from Mullvad's support team. Once you receive the custom IPs, you can input the text file in the "Server IP override" settings, which will override the chosen server IP addresses with ones that aren't known to the censor.

Maybe you can ask the support team whether they can give you an IP that is not publicly known as VPN.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

set up your own vpn server on a 'low end box' (small and cheap vps) for your own exclusive use.

[-] Wolfie@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Hmm.. All I can think of is doing this and borrowing a neighboring towns internet. Like a blackbox xD which doesn't sound legal.

Doing in within my own network, would not change my IP. Doing it within a family members network.. Well I don't want to share their IP either :P

Or do you mean like one of those free website hosting providers?

[-] sgh@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

More like effectively a paid-for VPS which, depending on where you live, might cost about €3/mo.

Configuration is all on your end and, to be fair, you may still end up on a blocklist since that's just a way to bypass their VPN restriction and your IP will not show up to be a residential address.

[-] marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

What are you talking about mate? The VPS will be a wireguard server, your device will connect to it and use the VPS' IP address to connect to your game

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