This is my experience using a paid VPN in 2024
A friend of mine has satellite internet access and can’t use Netflix, because Netflix thinks they’re using a vpn.
I get it much less going from Mullvad to Proton (paid) — I get Captcha’d quite often but I haven’t been flat out denied for ages.
Yeah every VPN openly advertising that they can be used to avoid content blocking usually compelled by copyright laws and shit dug their own grave in this context.
I tunnel all my traffic through a VPS i rent so my IP is associated with a data center. I need to log in to reddit or youtube to see any content.
They won’t allow anonymity. The internet as we know it is ending.
Yeah, annoying for sure.
Not gonna lie since I switched to PIA almost 14 Months ago i havent been getting anything like this. Once in i while i get a captcha, but im probably also not using servers that are very common.
edit haven’t used google as my search engine in years, so i didnt know the captchas there were a thing, DDG all day long 
I rarely see this with Nord, some websites do block but they’re almost always ad-infested anyway.
There really should be a lawsuit for false advertising against those companies advertising you can get around region locks. It’s BS, most streaming services will just refuse to work if you use a VPN
Shadow-banning can also happen which is worse. If you send a chat message on Twitch with a VPN it will show up as if it was sent but if you verify it with an IRC client like Chatterino you’ll know the truth. It depends on how good (or unknown) your VPN is.
If a service sees 7000 different people connecting from the same IP especially if it’s not a consumer one their going to flag it
This applies to cellular data, 4g/5g home internet, satalite internet, public Wi-Fi networks, some weird ISPs that ran out of IPs, and some badly run small ISPs/WISPs that use 1 IP
Also someone could have been banned or be operating a botnet or tor node as well
I’m not even trying to get different content. I try to access Google and it will infinite loop captcha me sometimes. I couldn’t even sign into Facebook unless I turned off my VPN. Works fine once I’m signed in though.
Use ProtonVPN its worked pretty good for me
Having seen this post, I decided to stick to my VPN service of many years for the foreseeable future.
I sometimes have same problems because of cheap IPS who makes whole city use same public IP adress.
Same, it rather sucks ass
In my country almost everything got banned so we use let say handmade VPNs that none of site or government can find them
I’ve been using ExpressVPN for 2 years, I’ve never seen something like this come up while using
I sometimes get it with iCloud Private Relay, but I haven’t gotten it that much with PIA.