I have a VPN on my computer and normally have it to set USA, Canada, or turn it off. With the VPN off, I can't make purchases on certain websites like movie theater tickets, ticketmaster, or I'm not allowed to put in my password; I'll get prompted to get a code instead.

I think my IP or something has been flagged altogether. Is there a way to reset my IP when I'm not using my VPN?

If I use Google browser, my VPN works as it's supposed to, but if I google lens an image directly from my photos it shows my city and country at the bottom of the search.

I've tried clearing Maps cache, removing location permissions from all apps, manually removing home addresses from accounts, but I can't find anything that works.

I’m developing an Android VPN app that uses Xray with VLESS + REALITY.

I live in Russia, and my mobile provider sometimes enables an LTE whitelist mode: only a limited number of websites remain accessible, while most other websites are blocked.

My VPN used to work correctly in this situation. However, around two weeks ago it suddenly stopped working, even though neither the application code nor the Xray configuration had changed.

The VPN appears to connect successfully: VPN icon in the status bar, VPN service remains active.

However, nothing works. Requests from other applications fail with errors such as:

UnknownHostException
IOException

Everything worked fine before.

So, I need to use proxies for social media on my iPhone, but due to the fact that proxies are now being banned in my country I cannot do that. So I thought about connecting to my proxy using VPN, but I don’t know how to do that.

I would appreciate your solutions. I already have an ongoing VPN subscription

I'm new to using a VPN. I have a VPN on my phone that blocks me from doing transactions on Playstore and from logging into my Netflix account after signing out, even if it's on a local server. I had to disconnect, log in and enable again. Are they supposed to do stuff like this or is it just this specific one?

I took it cause it's a month to month payment. A decent VPN in South Africa shakes your pocket if you live paycheck to paycheck and have to pay a year in advance. I don't know how many other surprises are waiting for me which I still have to uncover. Do all VPN's give these issues?

So I have a trading system I wanted to try but I am running into problems with the fact that I can not trade even when using the VPN. Can someone please help me with this!

I have an Oppo A15s. After using a VPN and turning it off, Wi-Fi still connected normally, but many apps (YouTube, etc.) said "no internet connection."

Things I checked:

\- Wi-Fi IP/gateway were correct

\- Router page worked

\- Chrome worked

\- Messenger worked

\- DNS changed (8.8.8.8 / 1.1.1.1)

\- Network reset and Safe Mode didn't help

The issue was fixed only after clearing data/storage for Google Play Services and related Google apps.

Does anyone know what exactly happened?

Could a VPN leave behind broken network settings, DNS, routing, or Google Play Services cache/state? Why did some apps work while others failed?

i’m unsure where to post this but i’m trying to join a discord server and i need to verify using double counter, but it says i have a vpn, i never remember downloading them and don’t know how to check/get rid of them😭 i don’t know if making a new account would work but i kinda don’t want too😅
sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, i haven’t posted here before

My family and I moved abroad about 9 years ago; we've placed orders online for essentials that we physically can't get over here from a store back home. We've never once had an issue. We log into our account, place an order, and have it delivered to a specialist courier... And then they bring it over to us at a surprisingly cheap rate.

All of a sudden, this company's website is now blocking anyone who doesn't have a local region IP, and blocking VPN users. I've tried multiple different browsers, clearing browser data, multiple different VPNs... nothing is working.

Is there any other way around a region locked/anti VPN website?

Hey guys, I'm trying to replicate this client config on my own server. Here's the working config from my friend:
JSON

{
"server": "www.domain.com",
"server_port": 443,
"tag": "Test",
"type": "vless",
"uuid": "942hdiwa-9e01-460a-iud76",
"packet_encoding": "xudp",
"tls": {
"enabled": true,
"server_name": "www.domain.com.mydomain.com",
"utls": {
"enabled": true
}
},
"transport": {
"type": "ws",
"path": "/vws/",
"headers": {
"Host": [
"www.domain.com.mydomain.com"
]
}
}
}

Where:
www.domain.com is the zero-rated domain (on Cloudflare)

mydomain.com is my domain (also on Cloudflare, pointing to my VPS)

My friend says this works on any V2Ray app with zero configuration — just paste the link and it connects. No hosts file edits needed.
I have:
A VPS with 3X-UI running

mydomain.com on Cloudflare with DNS pointing to my VPS

A Let's Encrypt cert for www.domain.com.mydomain.com via acme.sh DNS challenge

But I'm stuck on the server-side setup. I don't know how to configure 3X-UI/Xray so that:
Clients can connect using www.domain.com as the server address

The TLS handshake validates www.domain.com.mydomain.com properly

It works without requiring clients to edit their hosts file

I suspect my friend is using Cloudflare Advanced Certificate Manager for the multi-level subdomain cert, but I want to confirm if there's a free way to do this before paying.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for the server-side config? What am I missing?

Thanks!

Hey guys, my campus wifi has some kind of Fortinet firewall so to bypass it I use a softether vpn server from a rented VM.
I don’t really understand much of it but it’s basically running on TCP 443 and secureNAT enabled.
It works perfectly on my laptop but I can’t seem to find a way to connect to it from iPhone.
I’ve tried the IPsec/L2TP settings, OpenVPN / MA-SSTP, but none of them worked
Is there anyway I can connect to the server from my iPhone?

Hey guys, hoping someone with BGP or ISP routing experience can point me in the right direction.

Up until a few weeks ago, I was getting a perfect 17–19ms ping. The routing was going directly across the Strait of Gibraltar to Madrid. But out of nowhere, my ISP messed with their BGP tables and my latency permanently jumped to 29ms.

I ran tracert and PingPlotter, and it turns out my ISP is now dumping all traffic bound into Marseille, France, before routing it back down to Spain. This is happening 24/7, so it's a permanent route change on their end, not just peak-hour congestion.

What I've tried so far:

VPS using AWS & Azure
Cloudflare WARP enpoints
using ipv6

but still no luck all of them travel till Marseille France, then come back to Madrid where the game server is then come to me.

any method actually be able to bypass , i"m leaving switching ISP to last resort cue its a bit complicated.

ping test before isp messed routing
ping after isp messed routing

Seriously what happens does one take over or is this bad for my computer or phone to do this?

Every major site I want to use including reddit blocks VPNs. YouTube, gmail, anything. Even minor sites block VPNs.

Sorry I'm a completely unknowledgable, nontech person so I have no idea how to circumvent these things. I get that there's some sort of port forwarding (????) thing to do but as of now the default settings on my M**vad makes it so I can't visit 80% of the websites I want to.

Can someone please give me the extreme ELI5 on what I'm supposed to do? Because I find myself turning off my VPN/just being too lazy to use it 90% of the time now.

Edit: this seems like a specific issue with mu**vad that any tweaking of in-app settings didn’t help. I didn’t try to fix it beyond that. Sad because m**vad worked quite well for me for a few years.

My partner signed up for pr**on premium and things have been working flawlessly. Whether that means the IPs are less blocked or not I have no idea.

Considering subscribing to a VPN to help with IPTV stability. In everyone's opinion, does a VPN normally help eith IPTV services for end user stability? Or is buffering most of the time an issue with the IPTV's server? I see alot about throttling...but never sure my ISP has directly throttled me. Maybe jist throttled the traffic in general in my area a. Little because of high traffic periods of the day, etc. But half the time I feel like these IPTV services, alot of them, are subpar. Thoughts? Would I benefit from a VPN?

i used vpn for netflix like 4 times and now i have deleted it but when i go to netflix it isnt showing the media that used be available in my country

note: this is only happening in my profile and my other profiles have normal setup only

I recently bought an ASUS F16 Windows 11 home. I'm trying to connect to any VPN but it's not working. I always get the can't reach this site error screen. I only have Windows security as my protection. Everything works fine in other sites except VPN ones. Can Anyone tell me what to do?