more and more websites are blocked

[sylane 1]

Hello,
It seems more and more websites are blocked. These website are accessed without VPN (not just porn sites )!
For example, https://www.auchan.fr/. I have tried with many servers (loaded or not) in many countries and the VPN is blocked...

So, my simple question, why?

Thanks for advance!

Edited ... by sylane

[ss11 15]

OK, sounds fair. But what do you thing AirVPN can do and it does not?
I mean, this is the results of many many users using the same IP address in a no-log-policy environment. It's basically the exact expected effect.
Changing IP addresses on constant basis will give only few days at tops weeks of users experience, in the end arriving to the same result, but with significant costs  and efforts for the provider (AirVPN).
How do you plan to protect a resource (IP ADDRESS) against abuse, when you offer it on a no-logs policy? I'm just curious if there is any technical solution other than not continuing the subscription.

[BettyIsBoop 3]

Yes, still a complex question …

[ms2738 5]

On 12/20/2023 at 1:56 PM, ss11 said:

OK, sounds fair. But what do you thing AirVPN can do and it does not?

Well, if they support split tunneling or SOCKS5 it would solve the problem for me... the only thing I want protected is my torrent traffic.  It's funny because I've yet to find a VPN provider with really good SOCKS5... it's always like an after thought with servers not working and info hard to find.  I'd love it if a provider had SOCKS5 on all their VPN servers.   Edited ... by ms2738

[Staff 9972]

On 12/28/2023 at 8:54 AM, ms2738 said:

Well, if they support split tunneling or SOCKS5 it would solve the problem for me... the only thing I want protected is my torrent traffic.  It's funny because I've yet to find a VPN provider with really good SOCKS5... it's always like an after thought with servers not working and info hard to find.  I'd love it if a provider had SOCKS5 on all their VPN servers.  

Hello!

We do not provide proxy services, but only VPN, we're sorry. Small and quick didactic off topic here: using a proxy for a torrent program is a terrible idea, see here why: https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/ It's simply too dangerous, don't do it. If you need to tunnel only the torrent traffic you can rely on traffic splitting on an application basis. We offer it natively on our Linux and Android software, while on other systems you can rely on third party software, for example WireSock  or TunnlTo in Windows. Alternatively, please consider containers or hard virtualization as a safer and much more robust solution. Last but not least Gluetun for Linux has built-in AirVPN support.

Kind regards
 

[ms2738 5]

10 hours ago, Staff said:

Hello!

We do not provide proxy services, but only VPN, we're sorry. Small and quick didactic off topic here: using a proxy for a torrent program is a terrible idea, see here why: https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/ It's simply too dangerous, don't do it. If you need to tunnel only the torrent traffic you can rely on traffic splitting on an application basis. We offer it natively on our Linux and Android software, while on other systems you can rely on third party software, for example WireSock in Windows. Alternatively, please consider containers or hard virtualization as a safer and much more robust solution. Last but not least Gluetun for Linux has built-in AirVPN support.

Kind regards
 

I appreciate the reply, but I was talking about torrent over SOCKS5, not torrent over Tor... did you provide the wrong link?  I've found it works great.  Considering they work so similarly, what's the reason for not offering SOCKS5?  

I do use Gluten.  Do you know of a traffic splitting software for macOS?  Is that something you might include in Eddie?

[Staff 9972]

16 hours ago, ms2738 said:

I appreciate the reply, but I was talking about torrent over SOCKS5, not torrent over Tor...

Hello!

We too. Same thing, the linked article is correct.
 

16 hours ago, ms2738 said:

Do you know of a traffic splitting software for macOS?

Talking about per app traffic splitting we don't, but maybe the community does. You can also consider virtualization or emulation, for example with UTM which runs well in Apple Silicon (it is a QEMU wrapper). https://mac.getutm.app/
 

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Is that something you might include in Eddie?

Yes, it will be considered for Eddie Desktop edition.

Kind regards
 

[Staff 9972]

On 11/18/2023 at 1:16 PM, sylane said:

Hello,
It seems more and more websites are blocked. [...]
For example, https://www.auchan.fr/.

So, my simple question, why?

Thanks for advance!

Hello!

auchan.fr is an e-commerce web site. The reason usually brought on by e-commerce web sites to justify VPN / Tor / etc. blocking is that frauds are less likely from ISP residential lines. If you ask directly they might provide their own reasons.

Kind regards