Getting sick of the constant 403 forbidden errors on standard setups
My current setup for daily browsing has become practically unusable over the last three weeks because of how aggressive security firewalls have gotten with blocking IPs.
Every time I open a retail site or try to check local listings, I get hit with an endless loop of CAPTCHAs or a straight up access denied screen. I spent about two hours yesterday swapping between four different European servers just to log into a tech forum I use daily. It feels like the standard data center blocks are just completely flagged across the board now.
Shifting to residential nodes seemed like the only way around the restriction. I set up a WireGuard profile using a known VPN on my router last night to test it out. The connection speed dropped by maybe twenty percent compared to what I had before, but the access issues stopped immediately on the local news sites.
I still need to test how it handles heavy streaming traffic over the week. It feels like the whole landscape is shifting away from regular corporate servers anyway.