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by mft_ 288 days ago
I'm a happy Mullvad customer for years now, except a lot of their IPs seem to have been flagged (presumably due to scraping or similar) meaning that some sites are close to unusable when behind the VPN. Reddit is a prime example.

(I read somewhere a while back that they don't refresh their IPs (unlike some other VPNs?) but I have no special insight into this.)

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This is the reality of VPNs, they’re going to end up with a short shelf life because major sites block them. Australians think that VPN will save them with the upcoming age restriction and verification for social media sites in coming months, and I’m quite sure that most VPN providers will be ineffective.
They'll work to hide you from Australia.
Not helpful to circumvent age restrictions when the major social sites block them outright.