Using a common VPN on a residential IP caused my entire internet connection to be blocked for a few hours at a time after ~10 minutes, verified over a few weeks with ~3 intermittent attempts. Make of that what you will.
> Aren’t you afraid of using a VPN and their being ramifications?
Depending on the sophistication of the VPN software being used network traffic can appear to monitors as UDP[0] packets superficially similar to what many video games produce.
Okay, but user NewCzech posting to HN in the UAE could probably be deanonymized by the UAE for posting their comment, if the government got really interested in the matter.
Using a common VPN on a residential IP caused my entire internet connection to be blocked for a few hours at a time after ~10 minutes, verified over a few weeks with ~3 intermittent attempts. Make of that what you will.
> Aren’t you afraid of using a VPN and their being ramifications?
Depending on the sophistication of the VPN software being used network traffic can appear to monitors as UDP[0] packets superficially similar to what many video games produce.
0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol
Okay, but user NewCzech posting to HN in the UAE could probably be deanonymized by the UAE for posting their comment, if the government got really interested in the matter.