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I've noticed more and more sites are blacklisting PIAs ip addresses. Cyanogenmod is the latest I found. Go to their forums on the Cali IP and I get a banned message. Also google randomly refuses to work saying there's spamming from this IP.
We do that too.
But let's be clear, we don't blacklist PIA IP addresses, or Tor addresses. But we, like a hell of a lot of sites, subscribe to IP reputation services. If an IP address is being used to spread malware, hack stuff, send spam, etc... then the IP has a lower reputation and beyond a certain point will be blocked.
The problem with anonymising VPN services is that they are used by people doing stuff like that, so it harms the reputation of the IP and then services start getting blocked.
This is why I use PIA the majority of the time but still have iVPN as a backup in case a service is blocked.
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I got my internet upgraded to 120mbps now... PIA to local place, I loose ... well can't tell. Speed tests come out basically the same even encrypted. That said, that's on my PC which has easily enough grunt to handle it. On my other devices it tops out around 10mbps (as we've previously mentioned). I'm still waiting for some custom hardware I ordered to turn up so I can just VPN the whole flat and be done with it.
Oh, one other side problem with VPN everything. I've noticed more and more sites are blacklisting PIAs ip addresses. Cyanogenmod is the latest I found. Go to their forums on the Cali IP and I get a banned message. Also google randomly refuses to work saying there's spamming from this IP.