WeVPN Is Shutting Down

Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by bullhorn on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:51PM (#35562575)

>VPNs that don't participate in these BS schemes (or can't pay $100/signup, and wait for ROI 3 years later), have only 1 way to grow: word of mouth, based on the merits of the product. This is very difficult to do given the massive ad spend of the "big VPNs", and false advertising they engage in.

Highly agree with this statement.

That's why from my experience of using PIA, windscribe, keepsolid, Nord and mullvad.

I keep recommending mullvad VPN to collegues, acquittances and online friend (on a down side their IP reputation sucks badly, too much of captchas)

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:28PM (#35562991)

> (on a down side their IP reputation sucks badly, too much of captchas)

I'd be surprised if this doesn't apply to ALL commercial VPNs.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by yegor on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:46PM (#35563196)

There are ways to get around it. I'm confident you will see much fewer CAPTCHAs on our network, as we have mitigations in place for it.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:26PM (#35563554)

Impossible unless you have a number of IP addresses that gets close to your total number of customers online.

As soon as a service starts seeing a dozen users from a single IP, they're gonna start throwing CAPTCHAs on them more.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by yegor on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:28PM (#35564057)

A single IPv6 /32 contains 4 billion /64s. Most CAPTCHA delivery domains support IPv6.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by iudqnolq on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:56PM (#35563281)

I don't know much about VPNs but that statement is one of my red flags: when a VPN provider is vague about ip reputation migrations I assume they're buying residential proxys.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by yegor on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:27PM (#35563561)

We do use those for geo-unblocking, but they're not used for anti-CAPTCHA mitigations. We own and operate special purposes ASes and IP prefixes for that.

All of this can also be (verifiably) disabled by the end user in the web control panel.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by iudqnolq on Thursday April 13, 2023 @09:01PM (#35564303)

> We own and operate special purposes ASes and IP prefixes for that.

The part that seems shady to me is how you do this without being caught by the up database providers are marked as a non-residential ip.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by andreareina on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:00AM (#35565688)

My read of GP's reply is: they use residential proxies to get around geo-blocking, and separately have special purpose ASs to avoid captchas. They're separate solutions serving separate needs; connecting to Netflix gets you the residential IP, regular browsing would get you the other one.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by LoganDark on Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:23PM (#35564788)

> We do use those for geo-unblocking

What steps, if any, are you taking to make sure you are sourcing residential proxies ethically? Honest question.

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Re:WeVPN Is Shutting Down by stereoradonc on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:57PM (#35563287)

I implemented the SOCKS5 proxy, and I hardly get any. Shifted from ProtonVPN to Mullvad; rock solid connection; great app. Totally worth the investment. ProtonVPN's app is clunky, and I am not happy with it. Besides, zero Linux support despite the premium charge. I am not affiliated with Mullvad, but this represents an excellent value for money. I still have to try Windscribe. I have heard good things about them.

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