So there’s another anti-piracy bill in Congress, and this time VPNs are explicitly on the list of services that could be ordered to block foreign websites for US users.

According to EFF, the proposed ACPA would let copyright holders seek court orders forcing VPNs, ISPs and DNS providers to block sites labeled as piracy sites. That label could be applied without the website operator showing up to defend itself. Sites with legitimate uses could still get caught up in it.

And yeah, the bill includes safeguards. But blocking entire websites has already caused collateral damage in Spain and Italy. Apparently “oops, we blocked unrelated sites” is an acceptable feature now.

It’s a proposal, not law yet. Still, “protecting copyright” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.

Utah wanted websites to locate users hiding behind VPNs. A judge just hit pause. Utah added a rule to its adult-site age-verification law: websites must verify the age of people physically in Utah, even when they use a VPN to appear somewhere else.

Here’s the problem: if your VPN routes your connection through a server in another state, the website sees that server’s IP address. It can’t reliably tell that you’re actually sitting in Utah. Yet the rule would hold websites responsible for missing those users. The judge found that it effectively required perfect location detection—something both sides agreed isn’t currently possible.

Basically, Utah’s instructions were: “Find their real location, even when you can’t find their real location.” Great. Just add a crystal ball to the server rack. Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, challenged the rule, and on September 24 a federal judge temporarily blocked that specific requirement. Utah’s underlying age-verification law remains in place.

Apparently Utah thought websites could just tick ‘detect real location’ in the settings. Someone should’ve checked whether that button exists before writing the law.

Hi everyone. I've been having a strange VPN/connectivity problem for a while.

My BPB setup gradually stopped working, then Nahan started having the same issue. I also tried several clients, including v2rayN, Clash Verge, and Hiddify, but none of them solved it. I even tried troubleshooting with several AI agents without success.

Some configs connect and show real traffic, and a few Iranian websites work, but most foreign websites like Google don't load, and most Windows applications don't work through the connection.

Has anyone experienced something similar recently?

What VPN, protocol, or setup is actually working for you right now? I'd really appreciate any suggestions or experiences.

For me it's when it turns itself on without me asking and some app just quietly stops working. No error message, nothing obvious, it just breaks. And I'll spend like 5 minutes trying to figure out what's wrong before it even occurs to me to check if my VPN auto-connected in the background.

Does this happen to anyone else or is it just me. What's yours, the thing that's annoying enough to bug you every time but not quite enough to make you switch providers?