More and more sites are waging a war against VPN usage

- I recently had my bank account portal locked because they detected a VPN
- I can no longer access imgur or creditkarma with a VPN turned on
- Many people are reporting issues with Reddit on a VPN (not me, yet)

privacy is normal

Not sure how much value I'm getting out of using vpns and privacy emails. Most of my stuff I have to split tunnel (Bank apps, CEXs, etc) and use Gmail. Skiff and protonmail get rejected by a lot of services/websites, and vpns get picked up and blocked from access.

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i still have pretty good luck with mullvad too by the way

I still struggle with VPN stuff sometimes but i rarely turn it off and split tunneling unfortunately isn't supported on MacOS. it makes me irrationally angry and indignant when i can't reach sth on a VPN and i often just refuse to use the service if i can

i guess using a smaller, less-known anonymizing service is what serves me with not being rejected often. i bet icloud hidemyemail rarely gets rejected just cuz of market dominance

my biggest vulnerability is fam and friends willy nilly giving away my email

in any case, privacy is absolutely not a given these days