I tried doing it with ExpressVPN but quickly got frustrated by how many sites and services wanted to see if I am human or not. CAPTCHA after CAPTCHA like they wanted to discourage you from using a VPN.
How is anyone able to tolerate it 24/7?
For general web browsing no. For wifi networks that are not mine yes. For any activity in a another country yes.
I dont think it’s worth it for general web usage though.
edit for the sub conversation going on below this I am talking about privacy not anonymity here for the sake of arguement. A VPN does provide privacy it does not provide complete anonymity which is not what OP was asking about and is a completely different topic.
It’s not about wanting to discourage you using a VPN it’s about protecting the site, if you use a VPN there’s nothing about your requests to that site that distinguishes you from someone with bad intentions (DDoS for example)
With your normal home IP they’ll trust you until it gets flagged for doing something malicious so no recaptcha until you send 1000 requests a minute
With a VPN they can’t trust you from the get go, otherwise incoming DDoS from mr anonymous mask man with a python script and double keyboard setup can throw thousands of requests at a site by connecting to your VPN
Think of it this way, if I wanted to DDoS a site, if I did it on my home IP 123.45.67.xx I’d throw requests at it and soon they’d then not like requests from my home IP because they can’t trust me, so I have to use recaptcha
With the VPN, they already can’t trust you, so you have to solve a recaptcha
Hope that explains it a little - also no I don’t always use a VPN there’s not much point
I don’t use any commercial vpns. Instead I have a vpn server at home through which all my mobile traffic is routed. It also passes through a firewall for additional security and ad-blocking.
I use Mullvad 24/7 on my computer and phone and this rarely happens to me. Reddit does block me when I’m using Firefox on both computer and phone but the app works perfectly fine (albeit sometimes quite slow). Other than that, I don’t really have any problems.
Well, for me it’s a problem of a different kind: my VPN server IP is added to the AWS security group which controls the access to the servers we use at work.
Changing it every time it changes on the provider’s side because of NAT… I’m just lazy.
Static IP is just not the way I want to do it. And I have been having this VPN installed on my VPS for nearly 6 years already, why would I think of another solution if I already have one.
So, I have it connected for nearly the whole working day.
I’ve used NordVPN and now proton vpn 24/7 on my phone at all times never ever do I stop unless a service I need to use is broken with a vpn.
Why? Dunno, I just do.
I use a VPN 24/7 and the only times I get that is when I use Google (which I rarely do).