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Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.
Do you not run into issues doing this? I'm constantly having to split my VPN or disable my VPN for certain logins to work, such as banks, government sites and shit.
For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn't blocked.
It's a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.
Seperate browser for Clearnet /KYC
For example "mullvad-exclude trivalent"
I actually go further and have seperate VMs with different networks (VPN1, VPN2, whonix, i2p, or clearnet
That way split tunneling feature Is not needed and I can have 2 mullvad clients on lockdownmode connected at once
What's lockdown mode. I use PIA because it was cheap about 5 years ago and never had any issues so I havent shopped around. I don't have a dedicated IP which I would have liked, they offer them but I haven't convinced myself I need it yet. I figure if anyone else (not family) needs to access a site that points to my IP I'll do it then.
Maybe I haven't been understanding/using caddy and such properly, but how do you really get multiple servers running without 80/443 not having overlap. Like right now I have 53 for my Pihole internally, 8096 Jellyfin, 3923 for a file server, can't remember what my RustDesk server is on, but I wanted to set up a Piefed instance, and obviously I'm running into issues with ports overlapping because I must not be understanding how to forward / reverse proxy them properly.
Do you set up caddy on your individual VM's and use a separate IP for each. Can I just tie a URL from NOIP to a specific port outside of 80/443 somehow?
Most people don't need to run everything though a VPN. That just slows everything down. You would normally only use them to access resources on a private LAN such as when working from home or accessing your self hosted services when away from home.
That's a completely different VPN than what the rest the comments are talking about
That's why I temporarily disable it for some websites
I use my paid vpn extension (Nord) to select a Country for twitch.tv which isn't served ads. However I would all my traffic go through that specific vpn as it causes trouble with other appe/pages. So being able to cnveniently switch my IP per domain is pretty nice sometimes.
It is a paid VPN luckily though. The issue is with "free" VPN browser add-ons.
There's also different adblocker rules and extensions for twitch ads.
Not sure about the current situation. However in general Twitch uses server side injected ads (SSAI), which are basically unblockable. They can however be bypassed (using different methods, each having it's own pros and cons). Anway there is a very active twitch ad blocking community that will explain everything: https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions Most reliably is having either an http proxy or a vpn in a country that is not served ads.
They're not unblockable.
Every now and then Twitch wastes money on circumventing adblockers, but a few weeks later ublock filters will be updated to block that again. I'm currently watching without any ads or third party add-ons besides regular uBlock.
Curious, what country doesn't get twitch ads?
Well that is actually quite dynamic as sometimes advertisers suddenly choose to place an ad in somen fringe country like czech rep. or Georgia. Mostly those small eastern EU countries are not attractive enough for advertisers. For some reason I also never get ads with Luxembourg IP, even though they are one of the richest countries in the world. Probably too small of a traget audience.
Unfortunately that means disabling my entire network VPN anytime I need to bypass a VPN block. And also makes switching between different servers significantly more complicated.
Not to be confused with "Tor Browser" (not a VPN, just providing clarification)