@Dr_Vindaloo Mullvad did not. The website blocked Mullvad.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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It's because your vpn exit node was blocked by RT. You share IPs with other mullvad customers. Could be becaue someome was hacking or just hitting a rate limit. Try again later or use another exit node.
Did you try a different VPN? Many websites block VPNs from viewing their website, this is more likely the issue.
Edit: I have mullvad, RT works if you connect via Albania, I tried a few others and it didn't work but there are probably other countries which work too
Yep, Albania works (3 other random countries I tried didn't). I guess this is a block on the RT side, not Mullvad. Thanks.
It could be each government's regulation as well, perhaps they are blocking RT at the national level
I do not use Mullvad, however, I have had the same issue with sites, not rt(.com) in particular, but others. All I do is switch locales and usually the problem clears up. I haven't figured out exactly why. A lot of VPN IPs have a tendency to be abused and so a certain website may have blacklisted your IP number of the VPN locale you were/are using. Could be some scenario such as this.
You mean the VPN? Changing server doesn't fix it?
I assume he's talking about the DNS resolver within the app. Mullvad has a couple options: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
It works just fine for me btw, even when blocking ads and trackers
Also, if you use Mullvad's DNS servers, some level-1 DNS providers block Mullvad's level-2 servers, which means you can't even look up some sites. My solution was to use a web DNS lookup tool and add blocked resolves to my router's dnsmasq table. It's a shitty solution, but it works.