Re:Apple’s iCloud Plus bundles a VPN, private email, and Hom...
by dred_prte_rbrts on Monday June 07, 2021 @08:02PM
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I've been on the other side. When your VPN transaction fraud rate is much higher than your non-VPN transaction fraud rate and the volume is lower it's a no-brainer to react negatively to a VPN.
Private browsing should be the default and websites should not assume you're up to something shady. I've used torguard, mullvad, expressvpn, and a few others and regularly ran into these issues. This is not a knock against using VPNs, it's just something people should be aware of when VPN services market their services as nothing but hassle-free private web surfing. In the end I've settled for just running streisand from a cheap VPS instance. Hopefully with enough people using "private relay" websites will have no choice but treat this traffic like any other normal IPs.
https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand