I am not sure if this is the right sub, but I didn’t find other more appropriate.
I visited Russia yesterday and found out that the most paid VPN services I used - NordVPN, Surfshark are now banned. Both WireGuard and OpenVPN, even manual setup. I used to say that they wouldn’t do it, because many businesses depend on private VPNs and it would break too much, but they seem to be doing it successfully. I had my job VPN working without issues the whole time. I was able to find some less known services in GooglePlay, but it was tricky.
Are they just banning IPs or there is something else? What if I set up my own VPN service and use it alone, is there a high chance that it may be banned too?