I use 3 different VPN services (two of them regularly) and all servers seem to be blocked, even the one that was whitelisted manually.

I too know a couple people who are in the same boat and so just don’t use FT anymore. For me it’s cut my visits way down and I just rely on the email notifications to know a little bit about what’s going on here, but generally can’t reply except the once every few weeks for something that I’m compelled enough to make it happen (such as this thread).

FT is the only site I’m having this problem with, and I am certain that many sites on the internet also use Cloudflare, so I’m wondering if maybe there’s a configuration that is set to some extreme degree that is blocking nearly every VPN out there. I wish the right person who understands the issue and has control over the site’s configuration would see this thread and consider lowering the level of that setting to one that would allow SOME VPN servers to access the site. Barring something like that, FT is basically an email newsletter to me now :’(

Lastly for the poster who suggested that everyone just stop using VPN altogether because one website is inaccessible because of it- it reminds me of when that iPhone came out and had a bad antenna design flaw resulting in poor signal when handheld a certain way and Steve Jobs suggested that instead of altering the antenna design that people just hold the phone differently. The internet minions immediately found and posted photos of Jobs holding the iPhone the exact same (supposedly “wrong”) way and the next iPhone came out with a revised antenna set up that fixed the issue. smh