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As far as I am concerned, the internet doesn't know nationalities. Also, my location might be Germany, but I'm not exactly German. But thank you for pigeonholing, anyway. Learned another thing today, thank you

Do any readers know whether it is would be normal for VPN providers to liaise with the biggest blocklists? (I would imagine it would be a lot of manual work, so I could understand why Air would not want to take it on). Hello! We confirm that we actively keep "our" IP addresses out of major blacklists, including the sector leader Spamhaus. Most address providers mandate that this is done as they want to keep their addresses "clean". Unfortunately there are thousands of black lists so it is not possible to know and intervene on all of them. About the IP address you mention, you can see here that it's "clean" on almost 100% of the minor black lists and on 100% of the major ones. https://check.spamhaus.org/results/?query=213.152.187.235 https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check https://dnschecker.org/ip-blacklist-checker.php?query=213.152.187.235 https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist%3a213.152.187.235&run=toolpage Also, please be aware that some minor lists that you see above include an IP address simply because it is shared, regardless of anything else. Kind regards

We can of course think in black and white, like there are absolutely zero black sheep among VPN users. Ain't that a nice lullaby to fall asleep to? If anything, the services offered on the internet react to the crap coming from VPN users, because, yes, those people use it as a tool for, well, at least pseudonymity. Now, the question is, why would they do that instead of going via their normal internet connection? Privacy? Yeah, maybe. Geoblock circumvention so they can watch home TV when they're abroad? Sure. But the overwhelming majority obviously wants to do something they themselves don't want to be held liable for. I was a good example for this. Most times its torrenting of copyrighted material, that is, not paying for something other people create, but that won't trigger those automated defense systems. Some also abuse the servers for hacking-related things. Especially the latter people, even if they are a minority, are network-wise excessively loud. This shows in the automated defense systems being triggered for everyone, and that is why you post here with a bit of a rant, because it bothers your experience, obviously. Don't point your finger at the defense systems – point them at all those people who think once they paid for a product they share with others they can do what they want and so sully its reputation. It's so egoistical it's almost human. And it happened before. Okay, so someone contacts the admin team, works with them to remove some server from their blacklist. Job done, right? Problem is, three days later it's on a blacklist again. Do you know why? Because those people from before smell this, and use the unblocked server for their scripting relentlessly. The less walls to overcome there is, the easier the job, the more fun it is. They come back, even recommend the service as one that actively tries to tear down those walls, and they all think it's for the sake of their attacks. The service gets even more abused. Do not contact admins to ask for unblocks, it backfires in the most wondrous ways down the line. And yes, it's very likely a WAF. It's not that the internet is getting more dangerous for users, as the sentiment tends to be around these forums – the users get more dangerous for the hosters, and the hosters react. You really think those walls would be erected without reason? Necessity begets creation. They're not doing this to be a nuisance for VPN users. Service providers like Cloudflare sit in a comfortable position where they can analyze the traffic behavior from many parts of the internet and spot similarities. So I tend to agree with this statement.

Correlation != causation, as always. Of course not. Can AirVPN do something about the users abusing the services? People don't behave, especially behind a VPN, so everyone suffers for it. Simple as that.