I was just trying to access Feddit.UK via a popular VPN. It looked like the site didn’t even exist. Just a gray error page.

I’m not sure this is a good policy.

EDIT: I have clarification from ProtonVPN about what the problem is with accessing Feddit.uk. They have a service called NetShield which blocks IP addresses associated with malware and trackers. There is a false positive for Feddit.uk. Their team is aware of it, and will hopefully fix it. In the meantime, people can access Feddit.uk using ProtonVPN by turning NetShield off. It works for me.

  • tom@feddit.ukM
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    1 year ago

    It’s working with my nord VPN I haven’t blocked anything around VPNs so not sure what’s going on here

    Would you mind sharing a screenshot and possibly a console log of the issue if you can?

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      Sshhh. Don’t let them know they need to block Mullvad tunnels too!

      But in all seriousness it works for me through Mullvad as well. I wonder what other VPNs they have blocked.

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    Interesting. If I switch ProtonVPN on, “server cannot be found” for feddit.uk. Even if I set the VPN to UK server.

    No VPN - loads fine.

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      That sounds like a Proton problem with their DNS maybe. I wonder what happens if you override the DNS to something like Quad9?

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      Working for me from Proton, reckon they might have fixed it in the last 24h?

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          1 year ago

          That’s the private DNS adblocker right? I use AdGuard’s one which doesn’t seem to have a problem, maybe Proton have a block-first-verify-later policy for new domains like this?

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      I have clarification from ProtonVPN about what the problem is with accessing Feddit.uk. They have a service called NetShield which blocks IP addresses associated with malware and trackers. There is a false positive for Feddit.uk. Their team is aware of it, and will hopefully fix it. In the meantime, people can access Feddit.uk using ProtonVPN by turning NetShield off. It works for me.

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    1 year ago

    Tom would need to comment on this. It could be it’s a balancing act (blocking IP blocks where bad actors have been seen, vs allowing genuine users).
    It’s also possible that the instance host provider blocks certain ranges by default.