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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My VPN gets blocked on reddit and YT and it's my private server, OpenVPN on a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. What the hell?

[–] deluxeparrot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

I've seen a few places they started blanket banning data centre ip ranges since late last year.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

They can tell the IP of your server is nonresidential and don't trust it either. But I'd expect it to sometimes work.