Thoughts on the VPN block

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The VPN block kind of seems unreasonable. I’m using a VPN provider that also provides email security (I’m not going to say it because that would be advertising) because:

  • I’ve seen Glitch Projects that are IP loggers
  • I’ve also seen Glitch Projects with their database hacked.
  • I’ve seen Glitch projects with just people who sell advertisements (those therealsuntrust.freebankmoney sites, not a real URL because the TLD is invalid)

I do see why they have it because of D(D)oS attacks but people could make their own VPN or use a bad ISP which puts your location across your country (example: Savanah, GA -> Sacramento, CA).

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Hello! I am not experiencing this issue with PIA. What happens when you visit a project with a VPN?

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A 403 forbidden page

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(Thanks for the edit)

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Odd, is this on all *.glitch.me domains and glitch.com?

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.glitch.me domains give 403 errors while the editor does not load.

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Odd, this usually only happens when I access glitch sites through tor. Maybe you can email support and ask if they can unblock your ip.
Can you see if other AWS based sites work like pythonanywhere.com

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It works fine.

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I think this might be a Glitch.

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I was wondering where the announcement was. I checked through tashas latest messages and didn’t see it.

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@EddiesTech We’ve all made the joke, cmon.

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That’s the point…

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I watched that GIF 3 times until I got it :joy:

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Is it from a movie?

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probably made using blender, welp anyways we should get back on-topic.

and I don’t think glitch blocks vpns.

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I don’t think glitch blocks vpns, I’ve used about three on the platform and it never did anything bad

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I think it was just the VPN I was using.

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It could just be that your VPN has lots of people going on to Glitch websites and then reCAPTCHA is like “no no no”

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Didn’t think about reCAPTCHA. Valid point.

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I see, This can happend at your VPN provider. By the way, I’m using VPN and visiting some glitch sites seems OK, and doesn’t receive 403 Error.

Can you check your IP?
Or try another VPN provider.

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It was on multiple VPN providers. I just said the one I was currently using.
Also, I’m not buying another VPN because, you know, they cost money.

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As you know, some of them are free

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And I’m using free VPN as well.

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Most of the free VPNs I tried are slow and recently had database breaches. None of them worked on Glitch. Almost all of them had advertisements (and I would not like popups while surfing the web)

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my vpn also had a user breaches and it costed nothing

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You should not use these as they may log your IP or

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I had a free proxy and I use to code on glitch some times on restricted networks
I’ve actually used both tor and also another free proxy to connect

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Its quite possible that any VPN could be logging your browsing history.

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True, but just like @javaarchive, I actually used to have a proxy but I barely used it since glitch actually worked…

I do use soundtrap, which I need to use the proxy for…

This is one of the reasons why I don’t have a free vpn.

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Why do you need a proxy for soundtrap?

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I use something to let me get access. For some reason my network does not like soundtrap