Originally Posted by
bobert24
In case anyone at IB thinks this is not affecting their bottom line:
I used to be extremely active on this forum. Multiple posts per day, several hours per week (sometimes multiple hours per day). You can check my history from 3-4 years ago. With some changes in my life came the need to start using a VPN most of the time (particularly while traveling, which I hear most of us on this site do very regularly). The inability to access your website using a paid VPN means I just plain don't visit anymore. (Turning a VPN on and off randomly completely destroys the security that it provides, so that's not an option.)
This is the only website that blocks my VPN (Nord). There's not a single other website that gives me any issues at all, and I go to a lot of them. This needs to be fixed.
Originally Posted by
Cliff358
I agree. I used to get on this site daily. Now I only get on once a week. Having to turn off my vpn just so I can access this one site is annoying. When I do turn it off it is only for as long as it takes me to catch up on the strings I am following. I don't randomly surf the site anymore. A travel site that blocks the individual's effort to keep their computer secure doesn't make any sense.
I've always used VPNs to block the worst kind of advertising. Those that harvest and sell whatever kinds of personal information, browsing habits, etc that are to be found on your computer (or whatever device you use). I have been concerned about this for a long time and have found NordVPN with some of its optional features to be excellent in doing this. I also have always assumed that organizations that work diligently in preventing you from accessing their site(s) while using this kind of configuration are making money off such adverting.