r/VPN

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I’m sure a lot of you saw the breaking news today about Europol dismantling "First VPN" (1vpns), which was heavily marketed on cybercrime forums.

But the most insane detail from the report isn't just the seizure—it’s the fact that French and Dutch investigators secretly compromised and accessed their entire backend infrastructure all the way back in December 2021. For nearly 5 years, it was a literal honeypot. Every single user connection, real IP address, and telemetry piece was logged and is now being handed over to global intelligence agencies.

It really highlights a massive flaw in how people view privacy tools. A provider can scream "strict zero-logs policy" all day long, but if law enforcement successfully compromises the hypervisor or root infrastructure from the inside, those code-level architectures mean absolutely nothing.

What's your takeaway from this? Do you think there’s any realistic way for a commercial provider to genuinely protect users against deep multi-year infrastructure infiltration, or is bare-metal self-hosting with highly secure, obfuscated protocols (like VLESS/Xray setups) the only real buffer left?

Hello everyone! I'm new on this subreddit. I have a question about VPNs and experience has taught me Reddit is the best place to ask.

So, in short... I'm Spanish but I live in the UK, and even though my family in Spain pay for Amazon Prime, I can't watch any of the content from here since Amazon's content is locked for other countries.

I'm going to Spain in a week and I was wondering... Would it be possible for me to set up a VPN in my house (in Spain) that I can have remote access to from the UK? I have been using a VPN provider these years but I'm a bit short on money at the moment and I thought I could ask you guys!

Thank you so much in advance. Have a great day!

Hi, I have been working in a company that requires certain amount of survey every single month, im tired to ask costumers to help me, giving them discounts and at the end of the day they do not do the survey, is just 30 at month but is really hard with this kind of people, is there a way that I can cheat and do all of them by myself?

I have been trying VPN or other web browsers but it does not count any survey, PLS HELPPP!!!!!!!!!!

Feels like every vpn has some anoying catch either the app looks like something only sysadmins would understand or the connection speed drops so much that it feels like I'm sitting there with no internet, or half the servers just stop working after a couple of days ofc sometimes they keep working longer, but that’s rare i literally just wanted something basic for airports and cafe wifi because I move around a lot between apartments to cafe .I'm tired of constantly worrying about how defenseless everything is on open networks. At first, I tried a few major services, and to be honest, I felt that, I've been spending more time configuring settings than actually using them.Recently switched to Toggle VPN after seeing someone mention it in a travel thread and the biggest difference so far is that it just stays out of the way connects very fast, doesn’t constantly spam upgrade popups and netflix actually works evry time when I’m abroad. I’m still curious what other users here are using because I know vpn discussions always turn into chat wars

As of today, I am unable to access Amazon, on computer or phone app. It seems to be because of the VPN I have installed on my router. If I tether computers to my phone, they connect without a problem, and of course the app on the phone works as well when disconnected from WiFi.

This seems to be a growing problem. More and more Internet destinations have taken to blocking VPN traffic.

My question is whether others are encountering the same blockage from Amazon. I am in North Carolina, if this is a regional thing.

For those who don't know, Open Evidence is the best to day AI to deep and accurate medical search, it's literally gets info from articles, and as a med student is something I really rely on. For some shitty reason, it has been recently banned in Europe. Rn I'm using a VPN that is able to host me in USA (for some reason, most host people in Europe), but it has a free trial, so it's only temporary. What should I do?

Hej w piątek wybieram się do Chin, który vpn jest obecnie najlepszy?

I keep reading different vpn reviews and now I’m more confused than before lol. Saw people mention Mysterium VPN a few times but I don’t know if it’s one of those services that starts good then falls apart after a month. I just need stable speed and decent privacy without random issues every week.

Honestly, if you want 4K quality without paying for crazy expensive cable bundles, streaming via European public broadcasters (like BBC iPlayer or Germany's ZDF) is the ultimate cheat code. Top-tier coverage, zero ads... it's a no-brainer.

But if you're planning to spoof your location, you've gotta watch out for a few massive dealbreakers:

-Live Blackouts: Traditional VPNs are obviously a solid go-to, but those centralized datacenter IPs get flagged so easily. These platforms go on absolute banning sprees right before kickoff, leaving you stuck with a geo-block error mid-game. Ugh.

-The Living Room Problem: Running a connection at the router level usually slows down the whole house, and getting it to work smoothly on a big-screen Smart TV or Apple TV? A massive headache.

Because of this, I'm leaning much more towards finding a solution that uses real residential IPs to blend in with local traffic, instead of relying on those massive server hubs.

For those who streamed the last tournament on a big screen, what actually worked for you without getting cut off halfway through the finals? If you have a better setup or workaround of your own, please share!

Hey there guys. So i tried looking around but couldn't find much info in here. My question is if I want to watch specfic content from other regions on a streaming service on my Xbox, how do I got on about doing it? I have an extra router and Ive read about setting up a VPN connection on that extra router, which should be connected to the main wifi router, and then I connect the Xbox to that VPN router. Most sites break it down differently so whats the best and easiest way to do it?

Any help is appreciated.

I just downloaded a vpn on my cell and set the vpn server to a different country. However, when I login to the dating app on my cell I see local singles. Why don’t I see singles in the country I set the vpn server to?

I’m based in Taiwan and recently started looking into residential / ISP proxy services.

At first I assumed most commercial VPNs would be sufficient, but after doing more research I realized many primarily rely on datacenter IPs, which are often easily identified by websites and anti-abuse systems as VPN/proxy traffic.

What I’m mainly interested in is understanding the practical differences between various residential / ISP-style services in terms of:

- Global node coverage

- Residential / ISP ASN quality

- IP reputation cleanliness

- Long-term stability

- Real-world behavior against systems like Cloudflare, Google verification, and similar anti-abuse checks

I’ve been reading about different residential / ISP approaches, but there’s a huge amount of marketing material online, so it’s difficult to separate actual technical quality from advertising claims.

I’d be interested in hearing about real-world experiences or technical observations regarding:

- ISP ASN reputation quality

- Static vs rotating residential IP behavior

- Long-term stability differences

- Routing quality for users in Asia/Taiwan

- Common pitfalls or misleading marketing claims in this space

My use case is normal cross-region access and general daily usage, not scraping or large-scale automation.

Thanks.

Took me 20 minutes to figure out the cause.

Disabled VPN. Instant upload.

No documentation. No error. No warning.

Just broken by design for anyone running a VPN.

Anyone else hit this?

In London and ran into this issue at my hotel. Using a popular VPN and it works fine at home, but on hotel WiFi it either struggles to connect, gets blocked or becomes extremely unstable. VPN helps with IP masking obviously, but they don't guarantee access or stability on restricted networks.

Does anyone know if hotels are actively blocking VPN traffic? Or this just inconsistent network quality? Curious if others have experienced the same? It seems vpns are as reliable as they used to be. Wonder if this is because governments are starting to crack down?

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.