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VPN services
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2017–2024), in 7 threads.
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No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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VPN triggers endless captchas, blocks and repeated loginsUnreviewed
20172026- Internet is nearly unusable with a VPN due to endless captchas, blocks, and logins2024-08-10
- Shared VPN IPs get blocked or captcha-walled, forcing constant switching between servers and on/off toggling2022-12-21
- Unreliable VPN causes multiple flow disruptions every single day2020-02-03
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Internet is nearly unusable with a VPN due to endless captchas, blocks, and logins2024-08-10
- Shared VPN IPs get blocked or captcha-walled, forcing constant switching between servers and on/off toggling2022-12-21
- Having to run a self-hosted US VPN server just to reach US sites abroad2021-08-12
- Unreliable VPN causes multiple flow disruptions every single day2020-02-03
- VPN makes it much harder for family members to access shared services2019-10-28
- Captchas and blocked sites appear because VPN IPs are well known2017-10-30
- VPN connections slow browsing so much the web becomes unusable2017-03-30