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Old Jun 15, 2025 | 12:23 am
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Originally Posted by lotterhansa
You cannot always foresee this nowadays as the threat analysis is, in the meantime, live and it depends on whoelse is using this specific provider. This can change from one minute to another.
I've been using commercial VPNs for the past 15 years, and have never had any trouble picking servers that don't get blocked.

Lol. - A whatever Threat-Management Provider that delivers a blocklist to Akamai has specified to blocklist the whole /24 AT&T Netblock I and my neighbors are in.
As a consequence we can no longer access Hawaiian's website, as every visit ends with an "Access Denied" message.
I'm not a big fan of tunneling myself because performance (especially ping times) is poor when I'm 7000 miles away from my place in the US (that's partially my fault for not optimizing), but I know a lot of people who swear by it.
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