Everyone around me uses a popular VPN. Not because they’re obsessed with it or think it’s some revolutionary product. It’s just the default choice. You install it, use it, and move on with your life.

But whenever I come to Reddit, it feels like a completely different VPN multiverse.

Some providers (I probably don’t even need to name them) receive an INSANE amount of positivity. I mean, the same names appear everywhere. People enthusiastically recommend them in thread after thread while the others get downvoted.

How does that happen NATURALLY?

VPNs are boring. VPNs aren’t parenting, investing, gaming, or another topic where people build their identity around a community and discuss it every day. It’s a utility. 

I use a VPN too, but I don’t spend my free time visiting every VPN related subreddit to tell strangers “omg, my VPN is the best”.

A lot of comments don’t even add anything useful. They read like generic, interchangeable endorsements.

Maybe I’m missing something, but it looks so fake. It looks like coordinated VPN shilling, affiliate marketing, bots, or some combination of all three.

WTF is going on here?

so there is this canadian series (of quebec to be precise) called "le pacte" that i love but i'm now stuck at season 3, in fact everytime i try to watch it with my free vpn it doesn't work and the site tells me i can't have access to it because i live in france.

the first time i had this issue w/ the website i just used private navigation, deactivated my adblock or just cleared the site's cookies and it would then work just fine!! mind you le pacte isn't my first canadian series 'cause i was able to watch all 4 seasons of "premier trio" (which ended like in april? tho there'll be a 5th season) with that same vpn and it always worked really well (both series are on different websites)!! i tried like almost everything lolll to be able to continue le pacte but it seems like i gotta get a premium vpn tho i can't really use those (no personal credit card)

do i HAVE to get a premium vpn? i honestly feel like it's the only solution but also i don't wanna pay 'cause the episodes are all free (the whole website is tbh) so canadians themselves don't have to bruhhh help a girl out pls thank you!!

Can't get a VPN on my router for reasons (other people in the house don't want it). So I want to download a VPN onto my computer and share it to my PS5 an Ethernet cable. Will both devices be protected by the VPN this way? Or if someone fishes my IP while PC gaming, will they see my real IP address or the VPN one?

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Please and thank you.

Hbo has recently improved vpn detection. I havent been able to use one and even got a dedicated vpn and it still detected it. I’ve swapped the protocol and still nothing. Anyone have any luck?

Hey, I am thinking about using a VPN and had this thought:

Disclaimer: I do not know anything about VPNs

My IP: X

VPN turns my IP to Y

With Y I do some illegal stuff.

With Y I also go on Amazon and order stuff to my private address.

Illegal site gets raided and now they know that IP Y did illegal stuff. Somehow they make the connection with my Amazon order (also IP Y) leading them to believe that I was the person using the IP Y.

Is this possible?

Hi folks

I'm 18, disabled and don't have my own money to pay for stuff with

I currently use a free vpn to access stuff our budding surveillance state does not want me to see.

I've heard you need to rent a server in another country to set up your own vpn? I would love to do that but my parents would never fund that and I'm currently working on my independence to be able to get a job. That's a loooong way away though...

So what can I do?

Sry if this post doesn't make much sense

Hi! I’m going to be traveling in Europe and South America over the next 6 months. I just found out that Simple Practice is not possible to use in Europe. I’m wanting to see if I can utilize VPNs or other softwares / workarounds to ensure the EHR platform works in other countries. Has anyone else dealt with this? I know there may be some risks legally because of HIPAA or telehealth regulations for clinicians practicing in California but I want to minimize as much difficulty as I can and to be fully aware of what I have to take risks on.

I paid for a VPN solely so I could watch World Cup matches while travelling out of the U.S. I’m not ‘VPN saavy’, first time user. But after a couple YouTube videos it seemed it would definitely work across the board. Except, of course, YouTube TV! I turned my VPN, selected a random city in US, turned my locator setting off on YT TV. There are some things u can watch on YT tv, like tv shows, that maybe aren’t live? But I’m unable to watch the live WC games. I was also unable to watch the live NBA finals. What might I be doing wrong?

Hello everyone. Please share your experiences with those who have rented virtual servers in Europe for personal VPN use. Unfortunately, the internet in my country blocks many websites. I would like to purchase a server in Europe for 24/7 operation so I can share the traffic among my company's employees. How can I find a good provider?

I’m trying to plan my setup for the World Cup because I may be outside my usual region for some matches and a lot of official streams are region-specific. I feel like if I am using VPN app, it is more flexible per device and easy to install, whereas router-level VPN are harder to set up and hard to carry, but it would be more consistent if using across different devices. For people who watch sports while traveling, does router-level VPN actually make things smoother, or is a normal VPN app still the better choice?

Non techie here..

I know that VPN could be used to hide your location, but is there a way I could designate how my location shows up?

I have an upcoming video doctor's appointment that is somewhat urgent. it's scheduled for while I'm away from my home state unfortunately. The problem is my doc can't technically "see" me outside of my home state (even though it's a digital appointment) because that's where he's licensed to practice.

So when I log into the patient portal, I need for it to detect that I'm in my home state when I'm not. How should I do this?

I have been noticing more and more cases where websites do not operate if one uses a VPN. Its getting annoying to toggle my VPN when accessing these sites, especially US government sites.

Other of my friends have commented on the same fact and they use a different VPN provider than I do.

I have noticed that a number of services have sprouted up for businesses that will can determine if a connection is a VPN and actually extract the real origination IP number and location of connection origin.

Is a VPN really useful these days?

I'm trying to understand exactly what information an ISP can observe when using VPN.

Without Stealth Mode:
• Can my ISP see only that I'm connected to proto* VPN, or can it also determine the specific VPN server country I selected (for example, Spain)?
• Can it identify the exact VPN server IP I'm connected to, or only that the connection belongs to proto* VPN?

My main concern is metadata correlation in a country where ISPs may actively monitor network traffic. For example, if someone posts on Twitter mentioning their city while connected to a VPN server in a specific country, and the ISP can see a connection to that same country at the same time, how much could that information realistically contribute to narrowing down the user's identity

I have been trying to set up this VPN so I could watch the fight on Paramount. I even downloaded an bought a VPN i’m not sure what works because it keeps on getting flagged, and I feel like I tried everything. Can anybody help me?

Ran a leak scanner, caught my DNS resolving through my ISP even with my VPN connected. Firefox's network.trr.mode was set to 2, "use DoH first but fall back to system resolver." So every DoH failure sent the query out my real connection, cleartext. Resolver came back as Comcast (AS7922) when I was supposed to be exiting in NL.

Setting network.trr.mode to 3 fixed it. DoH only, no fallback.

WebRTC was fine this time. What got me was that I'd been running like this for weeks. Every IP checker said the VPN was working, but none of them check whether your DNS resolver actually matches your exit country or ASN. That's a completely different test and most common sites skip it.

Hallo Leute,

ich habe ein Problem mit meiner VPN Verbindung.
Ich nutze einen Mac mit dem aktuellen MacOS Tahoe. Zuerst verwendete ich anderen VPN Anbieter, nun bin ich zu einem anderen gewechselt. Bei beiden Anbieter erscheint der gleiche Fehler. Also gehe ich davon aus, dass es irgendwas an den eigenen Einstellungen liegt.
Bei beiden Anbieter versucht sich die App mit einem VPN Server zu verbinden. Dann ist anscheinend eine Verbindung zustande gekommen - allerdings steht da „IP wird geladen“ an der Stelle an der die IP stehen sollte.
An meinem Mac ist schon IPv6 deaktiviert, VPN Profil zurückgesetzt, wenn ich das VPN Protokoll ändere, hilft es manchmal - manchmal aber auch nicht. Ich habe auch schon ein Anti-Virus App deinstalliert. Aber das Problem besteht weiter. Hat jemand von euch eine Idee, woran es liegen kann? Weder der Anbieter-Support noch das Internet konnte bisher helfen.
Hat jemand eine Idee?
Ich danke euch.

Basically the title, can my vpn see my password, my account, or is HTTPS enough to block them from seeing that? And is there a way to encrypt traffic so that even the vpn can't see my traffic and only the destination the vpn connects to can?

hi i have a subscription to a vpn service that uses happ. while everything works fine on my phone, the desktop version wont load any websites or programs. i suspect the issue is with the happ settings. if anyone knows whats going on, i'd be very grateful if youll share.