My family and I moved abroad about 9 years ago; we've placed orders online for essentials that we physically can't get over here from a store back home. We've never once had an issue. We log into our account, place an order, and have it delivered to a specialist courier... And then they bring it over to us at a surprisingly cheap rate.

All of a sudden, this company's website is now blocking anyone who doesn't have a local region IP, and blocking VPN users. I've tried multiple different browsers, clearing browser data, multiple different VPNs... nothing is working.

Is there any other way around a region locked/anti VPN website?

Hey guys, I'm trying to replicate this client config on my own server. Here's the working config from my friend:
JSON

{
"server": "www.domain.com",
"server_port": 443,
"tag": "Test",
"type": "vless",
"uuid": "942hdiwa-9e01-460a-iud76",
"packet_encoding": "xudp",
"tls": {
"enabled": true,
"server_name": "www.domain.com.mydomain.com",
"utls": {
"enabled": true
}
},
"transport": {
"type": "ws",
"path": "/vws/",
"headers": {
"Host": [
"www.domain.com.mydomain.com"
]
}
}
}

Where:
www.domain.com is the zero-rated domain (on Cloudflare)

mydomain.com is my domain (also on Cloudflare, pointing to my VPS)

My friend says this works on any V2Ray app with zero configuration — just paste the link and it connects. No hosts file edits needed.
I have:
A VPS with 3X-UI running

mydomain.com on Cloudflare with DNS pointing to my VPS

A Let's Encrypt cert for www.domain.com.mydomain.com via acme.sh DNS challenge

But I'm stuck on the server-side setup. I don't know how to configure 3X-UI/Xray so that:
Clients can connect using www.domain.com as the server address

The TLS handshake validates www.domain.com.mydomain.com properly

It works without requiring clients to edit their hosts file

I suspect my friend is using Cloudflare Advanced Certificate Manager for the multi-level subdomain cert, but I want to confirm if there's a free way to do this before paying.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for the server-side config? What am I missing?

Thanks!

Hey guys, my campus wifi has some kind of Fortinet firewall so to bypass it I use a softether vpn server from a rented VM.
I don’t really understand much of it but it’s basically running on TCP 443 and secureNAT enabled.
It works perfectly on my laptop but I can’t seem to find a way to connect to it from iPhone.
I’ve tried the IPsec/L2TP settings, OpenVPN / MA-SSTP, but none of them worked
Is there anyway I can connect to the server from my iPhone?

Hey guys, hoping someone with BGP or ISP routing experience can point me in the right direction.

Up until a few weeks ago, I was getting a perfect 17–19ms ping. The routing was going directly across the Strait of Gibraltar to Madrid. But out of nowhere, my ISP messed with their BGP tables and my latency permanently jumped to 29ms.

I ran tracert and PingPlotter, and it turns out my ISP is now dumping all traffic bound into Marseille, France, before routing it back down to Spain. This is happening 24/7, so it's a permanent route change on their end, not just peak-hour congestion.

What I've tried so far:

VPS using AWS & Azure
Cloudflare WARP enpoints
using ipv6

but still no luck all of them travel till Marseille France, then come back to Madrid where the game server is then come to me.

any method actually be able to bypass , i"m leaving switching ISP to last resort cue its a bit complicated.

ping test before isp messed routing
ping after isp messed routing

Seriously what happens does one take over or is this bad for my computer or phone to do this?

Every major site I want to use including reddit blocks VPNs. YouTube, gmail, anything. Even minor sites block VPNs.

Sorry I'm a completely unknowledgable, nontech person so I have no idea how to circumvent these things. I get that there's some sort of port forwarding (????) thing to do but as of now the default settings on my M**vad makes it so I can't visit 80% of the websites I want to.

Can someone please give me the extreme ELI5 on what I'm supposed to do? Because I find myself turning off my VPN/just being too lazy to use it 90% of the time now.

Edit: this seems like a specific issue with mu**vad that any tweaking of in-app settings didn’t help. I didn’t try to fix it beyond that. Sad because m**vad worked quite well for me for a few years.

My partner signed up for pr**on premium and things have been working flawlessly. Whether that means the IPs are less blocked or not I have no idea.

Considering subscribing to a VPN to help with IPTV stability. In everyone's opinion, does a VPN normally help eith IPTV services for end user stability? Or is buffering most of the time an issue with the IPTV's server? I see alot about throttling...but never sure my ISP has directly throttled me. Maybe jist throttled the traffic in general in my area a. Little because of high traffic periods of the day, etc. But half the time I feel like these IPTV services, alot of them, are subpar. Thoughts? Would I benefit from a VPN?

i used vpn for netflix like 4 times and now i have deleted it but when i go to netflix it isnt showing the media that used be available in my country

note: this is only happening in my profile and my other profiles have normal setup only

I recently bought an ASUS F16 Windows 11 home. I'm trying to connect to any VPN but it's not working. I always get the can't reach this site error screen. I only have Windows security as my protection. Everything works fine in other sites except VPN ones. Can Anyone tell me what to do?

I am a freelance translator and I have a big Chinese client, let's just say I work with some of the biggest Chinese software developers in the world, and they are suddenly making me use a VPN to access a portal for QA work, it was no problem accessing it before, and in general I don't see why I should use a VPN to China to access it. But hey, I am not gonna let go of one of my largest clients just for some small thing.

I am pretty sure it's some type of spyware though, as they even made me make my own CMD rule that I cannot access the site without using the VPN, which is quite stupid. but hey, I did what they asked. Another reason I think it's a type of spyware is that it always stays in Processes even after closing down the VPN entirely. I obviously close all processes down after using it regardless from the task manager, but it takes a bit of time to close.

Note that I only get these tasks occasionally, so restarting the VPN and letting it run for the time I finish is no problem really. I just need to "Reauthorize" for every time I restart the VPN. But in the end, I have not had any other VPN work like this, can anyone confirm my suspicion?

*edit: The CMD rule was just editing the hosts file in sys32 to only allow certain IPs to access certain sites.

There are a lot of regional streaming platforms that have access blocked to those outside of it. Some of them are free with little to no ads. You can use a VPN to get around those regional limitations and unlock whole new streaming platforms with new content.

Some examples:

https://iview.abc.net.au/ (ABC iview, an Australian government funded platform, it's catalogue includes Bluey, Mythbusters, various journalism documentaries, Abbott Elementary, local comedy, Arrested Development, Australian TV shows, IT crowd, and a variety of movies)(you will need to make an account and if they ask for a postcode, 3000 is a Melbourne postcode)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer (BBC iplayer, it's catalogue includes lots of British TV, various movies) (you will need to make an account and include a postcode, E15 1AA is a London postcode that works, and also say you have a TV license (apparently people in the UK lie about having one all the time so you are participating in the local culture))

https://gem.cbc.ca/ (CBC gem, Canadian streaming platform)(will ask for postcode to sign up, you can just use H0H0H0 which is Santa's postcode that apparently worked)

I'm looking for more regional streaming platforms to look into so please comment some more examples

So I just got back from the Philippese. I have youtube prem and I pay idk like 20 bucks for it. But when I went to the Ph it only costed me 5 bucks

Im thinking "cool I can pay less using a VPN" but never got it to work that way. Why is that?

For anyone residing in the UK, we can finally breathe a massive sigh of relief.

Following months of intense debates, public pushback, and warning letters from tech coalitions, the UK government has officially confirmed it has no plans to restrict, ban, or age-gate VPN services.

The decision was publicly announced on July 15, 2026, by Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan during a BBC Breakfast broadcast, and formally cemented in a written statement to Parliament by Technology Secretary Liz Kendall.

The government’s official reasoning? They formally recognize that VPNs "have legitimate privacy and security uses".

The Evidence That Saved Us

A major reason the government decided to completely drop the proposed VPN crackdown is that their own data completely undercut the case for a ban.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) commissioned a study of more than 2,000 teens to see how they bypass age verification online:

• 26% of children aged 11 to 17 have used a VPN.
• Most use them for privacy, security, or to access normal geo-restricted gaming/media.
• Only 7% to 10% admitted to using a VPN specifically to bypass age-gated social media blocks.
• The actual loophole: A massive 45% of teens bypass age verification simply by typing in a fake date of birth.

In other words, a blanket VPN ban would have crippled essential cybersecurity tools for millions of adults just to block a tiny percentage of tech-savvy kids, while the rest of the teenagers continued to bypass the gates with simple, low-tech lying.

The Onus Shifts to the Big Tech Platforms

Instead of trying to police or cripple a core networking protocol, the UK government is officially shifting the entire burden of enforcement onto the social media giants.

Under the upcoming 2027 safety framework, companies like Meta, ByteDance, and Google must proactively build infrastructure to detect and block users who are attempting to spoof their ages or locations. Ofcom and the ICO have been ordered to deliver a joint report by October on how platforms can achieve this without compromising basic user data.

What this means for VPN Users

If you use a VPN in the UK, nothing changes. You do not have to worry about verify-with-ID portals to run your tunnel, nor will your ISP start deep packet inspection to throttle your secure connections.

It is incredibly rare to see a government look at actual empirical evidence, listen to cybersecurity experts, and roll back a privacy-threatening proposal. Kudos to the joint coalition of privacy advocates and tech companies (including Mozilla and P--ton) that successfully lobbied to keep our networks open.

Source: https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-drops-vpn-restrictions-online-safety

Hi everyone,

I have a POCO X7 Pro (not rooted) and I'm using Vodafone Turkey's 1-year unlimited ChatGPT package. My regular mobile data is finished, but the ChatGPT package is still working.

I'm looking for a way to route or tunnel my phone's internet traffic (such as Google Play downloads, game downloads, or other apps) through the ChatGPT connection without root.

Has anyone managed to do this on a non-rooted POCO X7 Pro or found any method that works? Any ideas, guides, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

"If I want to self-host a VPN, is it secure? I know I could rent a VPS server, but would I ever be able to harden it effectively? Is it realistically possible to maintain security standards comparable to established providers

A newly published official report by the UK government has highlighted a massive spike in virtual private network (VPN) usage among minors, providing a fascinating look at how younger users are adapting to state-mandated digital age gates.

According to the study, which tracked children's circumvention behaviors online, 22% of children reported actively using a VPN within the last three months, and 26% had used one at some point.

The report underscores a reality that the privacy community has pointed out for years: rigid, state-mandated age-verification laws are fundamentally shifting how everyday households interact with basic routing tools.

Key Insights from the Report

• High Awareness: 58% of children surveyed stated they are fully aware of what a VPN is and understand exactly what its primary purpose is.
• The Content Targets: While privacy was technically the most commonly claimed motive, kids who utilized location-changing features primarily did so to access geo-blocked or age-restricted gaming content, adult platforms, livestreaming hubs, and messaging apps.
• The "Parental Loophole": In a surprising twist for policymakers, the data reveals that parents are directly driving this adoption curve. Among the kids who used a VPN, 22% said a parent actively helped them set it up, and 43% stated a parent or guardian pays for the subscription.

The Looming Policy Battle

The study also noted that traditional online spaces - particularly gaming communities - are the biggest holdouts against mandatory age gates, with 53% of platforms in that category completely lacking age-verification checks.

The UK government explicitly stated that these data points will be used to heavily inform future online safety policies and assess the overall effectiveness of child safety measures. However, no new regulations, restrictions, or VPN bans were announced alongside the report.

For the VPN community, this study is a classic case study in the "Cobra Effect" of internet regulation. As the UK and parts of the EU push forward with strict, identity-linked verification laws, they are unintentionally creating a highly tech-literate generation that treats encrypted tunnels and location-spoofing as standard, day-to-day utilities rather than specialized privacy tools.

Source / Full Context: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-circumvention-behaviours-online/childrens-circumvention-behaviours-online

https://www.ghacks.net/2026/07/12/microsoft-confirms-windows-gdid-device-identifier-that-cannot-be-disabled-documented-in-fbi-case-filing/

So there is a unique ID attached to your windows install that can be used to track you, the FBI used this to track a hacker that was using VPNS.

Hey guys!

At my work, I’m free to work from remotely. But some of our customers have geo-block and they do not allow us to connect their VPN’s without being within the country (I’m residing in a EU country)

I would like to bypass these restrictions. I made a little brain storm with AI, and it recommended me to;
A. Buy a raspberry PI and connect to your WIFI, tunnel all your connections to internet from there when abroad.
B. Buy a local VPS, install a local VPN instance, tunnel all your connections to internet from there when abroad.

Which option do you think makes the most sense? I honestly would prefer the option B as I can maintain it more easily (and more safe since I don’t need to leave an electronic device plugged in).

But I don’t know if the option B is enough to bypass the traditional firewalls. Because for example, when I’m abroad, when I connect to internet via my country’s SIM card, I can connect to some of the restricted VPN’s. But some of them still don’t work.

What are your thoughts on this, can you please give me any recommendations? :)

Hello,

i have massive peering problems with my telekom dsl.

At any time of the day my downloads in jdownloader are at 1mb/sec maximum.

If I start jdownloader it goes on full speed alsmost 10mb/sec and a minute later it drops to

less then 1mb.

Ive reed that people recomend to use vpn. I have vpn but it dosnt do anything.

I activate cyber....... choose a country and the speed remains the same. Less then 1mb.

Is there anything I have to set up or set in my router for cyberg..?

I normaly just have the desktop software for ... and i just push the "button" connect.

Dosnt configured anything in my router.

Is that the problem or something else?

Please guys help me out cause im getting so frustrated with these download speeds.

Thank you in advance!