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by probst 2422 days ago
I use a VPS at Hetzner, but a whole lot of traffic sites stop working when I am using the VPN.

I bet in part it is due to the CloudFlare's efforts to "Cleaning up Bad Bots" [1]. In this article under how they detect bots they write:

> Another model allows us to determine whether an IP address belongs to a VPN endpoint, a home broadband subscriber, a company using NAT or a hosting or cloud provider. It’s this last group that “Bot Cleanup” targets.

I suspect when use a VPN hosted on a VPS, you often end up classified as a bot to be cleaned up...

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cleaning-up-bad-bots/