I tried accessing the forums this morning and was met with a notice that my VPN's IP had been banned. Is there a new rule against VPN's or something I'm unaware of? It's just best security practices in 2025 to use one.
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VPN's Banned?
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RR working fine with my VPN, Surfshark.
You might change your vpn server location and see if it works then.
You might change your vpn server location and see if it works then.
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Seems to be rectified now. Didn't like my ProtonVPN there for a bit apparently.
A LOT of people use VPNs to circumvent restrictions and/or do any number of bad things. I have no clue if RR blocks any specific VPN blocks or not, but I'm fairly certain that the platform has likely seen its share of maliciousness from those accessing over VPNs - would not surprise if some are blocked. I'm not sure whose idea it is that running all your traffic over VPN is best security practices, in 2025 or any other year. Doesn't prevent anything bad from happening to you. It only prevents your true Ip from being tracked.
I use VPNs all the time, work specific, to access work material from home. I never use a VPN just to surf the web. If I'm going to get nailed by something malicious, no VPN software is going to stop that from happening.
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I underlined the pertinent statement.
Investigating the IP address of people who try to spam the forums is a routine part of the moderator's role here. And, we see IPs from all over the world. Sometimes, those investigations result in IP addresses being banned.
To resolve situations where a specific IP address has been banned, I suggest you ask your VPN to provide you with a different IP address, use a different VPN, or don't use a VPN at all (though I recognize that may not be what you want to do).
So ordered, working fine now. Sucks some bad actors always ruin things for the rest of us. Thanks Bob.
We don't explicitly block users who use a commercial VPN, but our security software solutions will often challenge or block VPN users because they are often intentionally hiding who they are.
Unpopular opinion: VPNs are a scam, a way to extract money from you through scare tactics, and provide you zero security. I don't use any commercial VPN services whatsoever.
If anything the VPN companies are siphoning data off of you for resell.
The only legitimate useful use of a VPN is to tunnel back into your own private network or your company's network. Period. End of story.
If you are using a commercial VPN to access the internet, I'm silently judging you as someone who fell victim to a cable news network scare commercial and thus subjecting you to numerous blocks, captcha challenges, and country restrictions unnecessarily - or you are intentionally hiding or obfuscating your IP address and location for reasons other than "your own security"
Unpopular opinion: VPNs are a scam, a way to extract money from you through scare tactics, and provide you zero security. I don't use any commercial VPN services whatsoever.
If anything the VPN companies are siphoning data off of you for resell.
The only legitimate useful use of a VPN is to tunnel back into your own private network or your company's network. Period. End of story.
If you are using a commercial VPN to access the internet, I'm silently judging you as someone who fell victim to a cable news network scare commercial and thus subjecting you to numerous blocks, captcha challenges, and country restrictions unnecessarily - or you are intentionally hiding or obfuscating your IP address and location for reasons other than "your own security"
Hence my use.
