KSA = Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (presumably)
KSA ≠ Kosrae Airport, Federated States of Micronesia (this time) :D

LOL, yes, although I did just do the island hopper a couple of weeks ago!

I tried several different servers from Private Internet Access, and all of them are blocked.

Miami 2 is working for me, a solution finally. Thank you for posting!

I didn't see mention of BitDefender VPN here, but this is the one I am using and the servers I've tried are blocked. Are there suggestions for a server that can work, or is this something that can be enabled by IBJoel and team?

Cheers.

Using latest version of NordVPN with Threat Protection enabled. Some characters on FT, not on other websites, are garbled such as these two:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a9bef6e8d6.png
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ff7c37376d.png

I'm unable to access the site with NordVPN online. It automatically blocks me, but works once the VPN is turned off.

Try to disconnect/reconnect. I get that every once in a while (usually connecting through a Chicago gateway server) and just refreshing my NordVPN connection seems to fix it. If that doesn't work try connecting to US Chicago. That's where I typically connect and I haven't had a hard lock out for a log time.

I have the exact same problem!

Also had tried to Disconnect/Connect to no avail!

Is this site so special it needs such a heavy-handed approach to blocking VPN users? Lol. I mean, of course the owners of the site are free to do as they choose. Just like I am free to reduce my use of the site. It's just curious to me that of ALL the sites I visit, this is the only site that blocks me.

During the past decade since this thread started, management has obviously seen our opinions, yet the Cloudflare game hasn't really abated. This suggests to me that "yes" ddos attacks remain a significant concern.

Indeed, that may be the case. And I hope my post didn't come across as whining. I despise whining about rules on a free site, so that is not my intent. It's definitely more of a curiosity than anything else since this is, quite literally, the only site I visit with any regularity that blocks me while I am using my VPN.

I concur. The Cloudflare thing really doesn’t make much sense to me. Cloudflare underpins a great % of the internet and it’s DDOS protections aren’t rare, but this is the only website other than Ticketmaster that gives issues with VPN, and even Ticketmaster with their much more apparent reason for needing to protect against bots buying up all the tickets is substantially more loosely guarded than FlyerTalk (switching servers a few times usually gets me to Ticketmaster).

My guess is that it was an extremely heavy handed decision made for this site and the consequences of which were never really weighed or revisited since. And like you, I use FT much less because of it, relying on the bit of info I get from email alerts instead of visiting the site itself. I had to log into the manually “blessed” VPN server just to write this, in response to your post that I found in my email.

oh well! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Back in Europe, back to needing Proton VPN for some sites back home, and... FT still doesn't work with it. Frustrating.

I just signed up to give this a try. It seems like all US servers are blocked by FT! IBJoel