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Velocio in reply to @Kirth

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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Kirth in reply to @Velocio

yeah so I plan to do something a little over the top with split tunnels

PIA main link
iVPN back up

If it gets blocked on PIA, add a route to use iVPN instead. If it's blocked there too, maybe add a fall back "ok, just get the page unencrypted" route.

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