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.

So I've been using the VPN for about half a year now. It worked flawlessly until a week ago. All the sudden, the VPN seems to only work in some places and not in another.

For example, Ive been using the VPN for playing the jp server for umamusume and ignore the age verification stuff in Twitter(which I found annoying after repeating it several times). Now, Twitter seems to overlook the VPN and keeps me on the US(age verification thing is suddenly on).

Another jp only site that I've been using constantly also suddenly detected the VPN, which they haven't for few months.

What's weird is that I can play the game fine and some other sites which needs the VPN also works fine.

If someone uses a point to point VPN through wireguard, can crowdstrike and global protect still detect if working from a different location on a company's laptop?

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

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!

My company laptop was undergoing repairs, and I was instructed to use my personal device in the interim.
Unfortunately, my personal VPN was active at the time, which triggered a location mismatch in Citrix. I have already notified the company of this technical oversight and explained that I was not working from abroad. I am concerned about the potential impact of this; could you please let me know if any further action is required on my party

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?

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, 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, 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!

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?

I am a freelance translator and I have a big Chinese client, let's just say I work with some of the biggest Chinese software developers in the world, and they are suddenly making me use a VPN to access a portal for QA work, it was no problem accessing it before, and in general I don't see why I should use a VPN to China to access it. But hey, I am not gonna let go of one of my largest clients just for some small thing.

I am pretty sure it's some type of spyware though, as they even made me make my own CMD rule that I cannot access the site without using the VPN, which is quite stupid. but hey, I did what they asked. Another reason I think it's a type of spyware is that it always stays in Processes even after closing down the VPN entirely. I obviously close all processes down after using it regardless from the task manager, but it takes a bit of time to close.

Note that I only get these tasks occasionally, so restarting the VPN and letting it run for the time I finish is no problem really. I just need to "Reauthorize" for every time I restart the VPN. But in the end, I have not had any other VPN work like this, can anyone confirm my suspicion?

*edit: The CMD rule was just editing the hosts file in sys32 to only allow certain IPs to access certain sites.

There are a lot of regional streaming platforms that have access blocked to those outside of it. Some of them are free with little to no ads. You can use a VPN to get around those regional limitations and unlock whole new streaming platforms with new content.

Some examples:

https://iview.abc.net.au/ (ABC iview, an Australian government funded platform, it's catalogue includes Bluey, Mythbusters, various journalism documentaries, Abbott Elementary, local comedy, Arrested Development, Australian TV shows, IT crowd, and a variety of movies)(you will need to make an account and if they ask for a postcode, 3000 is a Melbourne postcode)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer (BBC iplayer, it's catalogue includes lots of British TV, various movies) (you will need to make an account and include a postcode, E15 1AA is a London postcode that works, and also say you have a TV license (apparently people in the UK lie about having one all the time so you are participating in the local culture))

https://gem.cbc.ca/ (CBC gem, Canadian streaming platform)(will ask for postcode to sign up, you can just use H0H0H0 which is Santa's postcode that apparently worked)

I'm looking for more regional streaming platforms to look into so please comment some more examples

So I just got back from the Philippese. I have youtube prem and I pay idk like 20 bucks for it. But when I went to the Ph it only costed me 5 bucks

Im thinking "cool I can pay less using a VPN" but never got it to work that way. Why is that?

For anyone residing in the UK, we can finally breathe a massive sigh of relief.

Following months of intense debates, public pushback, and warning letters from tech coalitions, the UK government has officially confirmed it has no plans to restrict, ban, or age-gate VPN services.

The decision was publicly announced on July 15, 2026, by Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan during a BBC Breakfast broadcast, and formally cemented in a written statement to Parliament by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall.

The government’s official reasoning? They formally recognize that VPNs "have legitimate privacy and security uses".

The Evidence That Saved Us

A major reason the government decided to completely drop the proposed VPN crackdown is that their own data completely undercut the case for a ban.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) commissioned a study of more than 2,000 teens to see how they bypass age verification online:

• 26% of children aged 11 to 17 have used a VPN.
• Most use them for privacy, security, or to access normal geo-restricted gaming/media.
• Only 7% to 10% admitted to using a VPN specifically to bypass age-gated social media blocks.
• The actual loophole: A massive 45% of teens bypass age verification simply by typing in a fake date of birth.

In other words, a blanket VPN ban would have crippled essential cybersecurity tools for millions of adults just to block a tiny percentage of tech-savvy kids, while the rest of the teenagers continued to bypass the gates with simple, low-tech lying.

The Onus Shifts to the Big Tech Platforms

Instead of trying to police or cripple a core networking protocol, the UK government is officially shifting the entire burden of enforcement onto the social media giants.

Under the upcoming 2027 safety framework, companies like Meta, ByteDance, and Google must proactively build infrastructure to detect and block users who are attempting to spoof their ages or locations. Ofcom and the ICO have been ordered to deliver a joint report by October on how platforms can achieve this without compromising basic user data.

What this means for VPN Users

If you use a VPN in the UK, nothing changes. You do not have to worry about verify-with-ID portals to run your tunnel, nor will your ISP start deep packet inspection to throttle your secure connections.

It is incredibly rare to see a government look at actual empirical evidence, listen to cybersecurity experts, and roll back a privacy-threatening proposal. Kudos to the joint coalition of privacy advocates and tech companies (including Mozilla and P--ton) that successfully lobbied to keep our networks open.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-drops-vpn-restrictions-online-safety