Using a VPN prevents me accessing these pages

[jwd3ca]

I need to disconnect my VPN in order to get to community.m5stack.com, Otherwise browser just spins. PITA!
Tried both Chrome and Firefox, same result. Why is this?

[teastain]

Openess

[kuriko]

@jwd3ca
We have banned some IP addresses to prevent potential spamming
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[jwd3ca]

@kuriko So I use piavpn. Each time I connect I get a different ipaddr. I have yet been able to connect to M5Stack community when connected to tje VPN. It seems as though you are blocking any/all ipaddrs that piavpn provides. Is this indeed the case? Thanks.

[jwd3ca]

@teastain ?

[teastain]

@jwd3ca yes?

[kuriko]

@jwd3ca
I'm not sure what the IP addresses of PIA VPN are, but please try not to open the VPN to access the community.

[jwd3ca]

@teastain Just wondering how your answer, 'openess' [sic] helps to answer my question. Even if it were an actual word, which it's not 🤔. Care to elaborate?

[ajb2k3]

@jwd3ca said in Using a VPN prevents me accessing these pages:

@teastain Just wondering how your answer, 'openess' [sic] helps to answer my question. Even if it were an actual word, which it's not 🤔. Care to elaborate?

You didn't ask him a question you only posted his name and a question mark.
IPaddress banning is not a good solution when you are banning IPV4 addresses. I have sometime been caught by an IP ban due to the provider randomly changing the IP address..
You need to contact your VPN provider to sort out the issue.

[teastain]

@jwd3ca Why do you use a VPN to come here, what is to hide?
Why this VPN in particular? With some shady characters.
"former Mt. Gox (The famous BitCoin fraud/theft) CEO Mark Karpelès runs it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpelès#
Read up.
I was gonna let it slide but you persisted.