Ask HN: Amazon.com blocking VPNs. What can we do?

Re:Ask HN: Amazon.com blocking VPNs. What can we do? by 8organicbits on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:58PM (#23647205)

If I'm following, the DNS query to your VPN providers recursive resolver is getting a 10.x.x.x IP address. So the Amazon authoritative DNS server must be generating different responses based on which DNS resolver you use.

From a purely technical perspective, I'd think DNS over HTTPS (DoH) would let you bypass the VPN providers DNS server and use 1.1.1.1 or something.

How many VPN providers are affected? Which VPN provider were you using?

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Re:Ask HN: Amazon.com blocking VPNs. What can we do? by mleonhard on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:12PM (#23647320)

I'm not interested in playing a cat-and-mouse game with Amazon's netsec team. If I try to bypass their blocks, they will probably blacklist my account. Then I couldn't access the music and movies that I already purchased.

Amazon has many techniques to combat fraud, each has a cost and benefit. They decided to block VPNs because they thought it would help them make more money overall.

Publicly-traded companies care only about money. Increasing the cost of VPN blocking is a good way to get them to stop doing it. That's why I cancelled my subscriptions and did it by phone, since phone-support is more costly to companies.

I'm using PrivateInternetAccess.com . I picked them because they have California servers and they fund EFF and WireGuard.

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Re:Ask HN: Amazon.com blocking VPNs. What can we do? by 8organicbits on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:30PM (#23647438)

The Ask HN is asking for advice, so I'll offer some. Although I understand you may be frustrated.

PIA client has tooling to change your DNS resolver, so there's an easier approach than I originally offered.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/androi...

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