EDIT: Thank you all for your help, I guess I’ll have to keep changing location, filling captcha and occasionally allow an exception. Keeping ones internet activity even remotely private requires effort, even with good tools.
Hi,
After reading time and again about how Mullvad VPN is the best VPN out there, I decided to give it a try and got myself an account & credit for a month worth of trial.
However after a couple days of use on my mobile (I also use Mullvad Browser), I’m getting bounced from many mainstream website.
Is this normal? Any settings I should adjust?
Cheers
You’ll find that with any major VPN. The IP addresses they use to proxy your traffic eventually get flagged and blocked by lots of major players. Which is why VPN companies cycle through them quite often. As others have said, you’ll either need to switch servers (and thus ips) or figure out another path.
I don’t use mull but most have a way to exclude a given url or site from the tunnel if you need it. i.e. the site will work for you but it’s coming from your own IP and unencrypted.
Express VPN is pretty good at not getting blocked but you pay a fair premium for their service.
Its owned by Kape technologies - a former malware distributor that operates in Israel:
I get blocked from Google and reddit on Mullvad, but I see that as a Google and reddit problem, not a Mullvad problem lol.
I’m having the same issue, and like others have said, using frontends Is a nice solution. However, they can be hard up remember. I searched for an extension to automate it, and found this. Seems awesome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
That’s a great name for an extension
Yeah, libredirect is awesome. It’s useful even if I remember all the frontends, since it means even embedded and linked videos use whatever frontend I want in the case of Youtube.
Don’t no which websites you are talking about, but a bunch of websites (looking at you Reddit) block VPNs based on ip. Your only option is changing server until you find one that isn’t blocked or using Tor
Life Hack: Replace the www from www.reddit.com/… to sh: sh.reddit.com/… It should be easy to write a script that replaces these URLs
What does this do
It allows using reddit with my VPN (Mullvad) turned on. I don’t know why reddit offers such a workaround, but it works for me
Can you format this better please?
Not Mullvad’s fault, they’re just on some of the used blocklists. Not really much you can do about it besides finding a not yet blocked servers.
Try Tor maybe? Although it’s not very fast…
In my years of using mullvad (before they took away port forwarding) I found probably half a dozen websites that blocked me based on that but it may be more common now. Often I found it was easy to get around it using Tor. Some of the smaller and better-run sites might fix the problem if you report it to them through the proper channels.
Which do you use now? I know a lot of VPNs don’t support port forwarding.
Currently on Azire. There aren’t many left and I wanted to support one of the slightly less well-known ones. It works well enough.
Azire looks great ! I’m interested on why you choose azire over protonVPN?
Aside from not wanting to rely on the same one as everyone else in the world, setting up port forwarding on proton looks unreasonably complicated.
