I use Proton. But I continue to run into more and more websites and services that detect my VPN and refuse my connection, or just run literally 40 captchas in a row until I just give up.

I use Proton because it has a “suite” of products under a single subscription, but that benefit is losing it’s allure as some of their products are pretty shitty from a user experience perspective, their customer support is atrocious, and they don’t seem to pay any attention to what their users actually want.

Does anyone track known VPN servers? Is there a specific provider that causes less problems? Does anyone test different VPNs for detection?

Thinking about cancelling my subscription and moving to Mullvad.

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    I’ll try Redlib, thanks for the heads up.

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    The official instance is hosted at https://redlib.matthew.science

    It’s already broken.

    Stealth continued working for a few months after they killed the API.

    RedReader is just a terrible app, if I’m honest.

    Will try Geddit but I doubt they will hold up to Stealth. It was so good :'(

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      The official instance is hosted at https://redlib.matthew.science

      It’s already broken.

      Their server is down, but I haven’t seen a Redlib instance get blocked by Reddit. Try another instance like safereddit.com or check out the entire list of instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md

      LibRedirect should also automatically fetch the list and allow you to choose instances you like

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        Their server is down

        Yes that sort of thing seems to happen frequently with these type of platforms. LibReddit, Piped, Invidious, Bibliogram, etc.

        It’s too much hassle to constantly be trying to chase down a functioning instance.

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      I would avoid trying to make sure you use the “official instance” as it kind of works against the projects purpose of decentralizing web requests. pinging around instances helps with avoiding outages as well. you can find active instances here on the uptime monitor.

      otherwise, stealth should work just fine if u turn on webscraping mode. I have been using it since the reddit changes with only very occasional issues, as similar to you I have some quams with alternative reddit clients.1000018448

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        I would avoid trying to make sure you use the “official instance” as it kind of works against the projects purpose of decentralizing web requests.

        I would but I didn’t know where to find them.

        you can find active instances here on the uptime monitor

        Thanks

        stealth should work just fine if u turn on webscraping mode

        Nope

        Geddit also doesn’t do anything but a constant loading indicator.

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          oh damn I see sorry u can’t get the apps to work I guess I’ll do a little digging on my side. in the mean time I hope I’ve been at least somewhat helpful haha 🙏