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I'm losing energy for my VPN by the day (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by oneser@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I turned it off for 3 days and the difference was very noticeable.

No spending 2-3 minutes switching between servers to make a website work, no captchas before reading, no false "connection timed out" or "server blocked" notices.

Is everyone having the same experience, or am I doing something wrong?

*Oh but to add, any ads which slipped through unlock ended up being obviously better targeted, which I was repulsed by :)

*Edit: it looks like turning off Firefox's own DNS resolver managed to subside many of the captcha request, including for apps which are just browser overlays. Thanks @hansolo@lemmy.today :)

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[–] otto_kartoffelsaft@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 days ago

My go-to exit node is in Albania, especially when using NewPipe. I heard that its illegal for YouTube to run ads in Albania, so if that's true they might not put in effort to block Albanian IPs.

Aside from that, I can sympathize as that happens very often to me as well. I have JS turned off by default so when I see a site asking me to turn it on its usually for the cloudflare bot check. I'm not doing any heavy duty website usage by any means, so I have some patience for that, but also I am far less likely to use a site that requires JS which makes VPN hurdles easier to manage. I basically only switch it off when I need to access a .gov site.