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• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Browsing lemmy is probably fine, but the general internet is a god damn nightmare to browse on a VPN. Can’t load that one reddit search result with what you need. Endless google captchas making you do traffic light after traffic light on sites you didn’t even kniw used google. Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps. And I’ve had plenty of instances of cloudflare blocking VPNs to certain sites.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My VPN is on 100% of the time. The only thing I can confirm is that reddit sometimes blocks my VPN (guess there IP list isn’t quite complete), but in that case I just use a libreddit frontend (should do that anyway).

    Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps.

    Are you using a free one? I at least get 500 mbps download through my vpn, usually more.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No it’s a paid VPN, and it starts fast but after the first 500GB or so it slows right down.

      I do suspect many of the issues are from activity on the VPN rather than specific VPN blocking, but that doesn’t change the issues.

      How do you handle the Google Captchas that never end? That was the worst part for me.

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How do you handle the Google Captchas that never end? That was the worst part for me.

        I guess I don’t get them because I’m logged in with my google account?

        Cloud flare is more annoying, but I usually just get the checkboxes, rarely do I have to select busses/bikes/trafficlights etc.

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  • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For the reddit thing: have you heard of libredirect?

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have, thanks. The impossible to complete captchas are the worst for me, so many sites that are basically broken.

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