Been using PIA for a while now, but recently more and more websites seem to block me, if I use PIA. Sites like Google search, Reuters news, etc. don’t let me access their website, unless I disconnect from the VPN. And I don’t mean captcha’s. Captcha’s I am used to. The websites straight up block me.
Is this a known thing? Any way to prevent the blocking?
All VPNs are getting blocked more and more
VPNs will have to innovate if they want to stay in business
I’ve used PIA for years now and rarely have issues. The only on going issue is Google with their retarded captcha.
Switching PIA servers can help, even disconnect/reconnect gets you a different IP that may not be blocked. Local servers, instead of regional servers, IME are less prone to this problem.
I just don’t use a VPN for “basic” browsing. I only use it for the things that actually need it.
PIA is being lazy. Lets not pretend they arent. Its semi-abandoned.
I’m used to get the captcha challenge every now and then but recently it has became unmanageable.
Google captcha’s me to death
In the last few weeks I also noticed more “resistance” when using PIA
unfortunately, this is true.
Use PIA split tunnel and put your browser on bypass VPN.
Get a dedicated IP from PIA. Use it for all your general browsing. Switch servers if/when you’re doing something “shady”. I’ve never been blocked from a site and i don’t get many captchas with the dedicated IP.
I have a dedicated ip with PIA… it helps with not getting blocked. When I use my home city (puplic vpn), I get blocked a lot…
Two types of public IP addresses residential, and commercial. Commercial IP’s are easy to filter, not a ton of traffic uses commercial IP’s residential is by far the more for day to day traffic.
Some VPN’s will pay for residential IP’s and use them until they are blocked. They continuesly do this over, and over. Some VPN’s simply use commercial IP’s and nothing else.
Sorting commercial, and residential IP’s is extremely simple from a networking perspective, and sadly the internet has become less open over the last 5 years. It use to be all internet traffic was treated equally, these days a lot of commercial grade IP’s are flagged, blocked, or just a ton of captchas.
The internet as a whole has started to penalize commercial IP’s due to their abusive, and frequently malicious use. Not everyone is doing something wrong, however enough people out there are, to such a degree where users are simply now penalized for surfing the web from a commercial IP address.
Reuters has a limit of five free articles, they will block you with VPN or without after you reach that limit.
I’ve had to start using PIA in order to play an online game due to AT&T not fixing their peer connection. I’ve noticed a lot of sites do block PIA IPs like imgur.com.
I switched mine to the state I live in, getting far fewer problems
And what sites might that be? (He asked them knowingly)
If you are in a public place (airport, coffee shop, library) what things need it?