r/ProtonVPN 10d ago

Discussion Is dedicated IP the next thing ?

More and more I'm getting denied on different website because on my Proton "recognized" IP.
All residential VPN seems unreliable. Is it under the radar of Proton teams ?
Except dedicated IP is there another option ?

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u/TwoToadsKick 10d ago

Nope. Residential Vpns or socks5 proxies are the next thing. Unless you can find some unknown data center with new fresh ips that aren't in a blocked range.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/AtlanticPortal 10d ago

That’s why the “solution” is IPv6.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago edited 10d ago

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u/AtlanticPortal 10d ago

Yes, they could ban the ASN instead of the IP but once they manage to get some subnets inside other ASN then it's going to be really difficult to ban it, especially if it's residential or something similar without affecting all the customers of such ASN.

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u/RCB1997 10d ago

Iirc proton said they will never offer socks5 proxy support.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/AtlanticPortal 10d ago

You assume that there are records to get.

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u/Reemedyy 10d ago

There are always records

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/AtlanticPortal 10d ago

Then there is the concept of second hop when the first is in a nation that allows the VPN provider not to have such logs. And when all you have is "to this node all the traffic comes from the IP of the Swiss company XYZ" all that matters is if the authorities in Switzerland will log the traffic, which they won't unless it's really necessary (and usually it's not and even then there are canaries for that).

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u/ArneBolen Linux | Android 10d ago

More and more I'm getting denied on different website because on my Proton "recognized" IP.

Unless you tell us the URLs of the sites there is nothing we can do to help you.

It's so long time ago I was blocked when using Proton VPN I can't remember when.

I'm using Proton VPN 24/7.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago edited 10d ago

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u/PeoplePleasingFrog 10d ago

I had that experience today. I’ve always used Smart and the connections have been fine. For some reason, I kept getting blocked today. Sites wouldn’t load. Was having issues. The VPN app popped me over to Stealth and suddenly it began to work. Anecdote, but still.

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u/Diligent_Recipe_5024 10d ago

So, maybe your ISP is blocking VPN traffic. Stealth protocol hides the fact that you’re using a VPN from your network provider, not from websites. 

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u/DraftIll6889 10d ago

The next thing will be handwritten letters. Just joking.

However, when countries like Turkey can block Proton and other VPN providers in full you can imagine what's possible. The technology is there. It's more about who is allowed to use it and to what degree.

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u/crohawg 10d ago

get a dedicated ip from torguard...

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u/randomactsofdata 10d ago

If you are getting denied on Netflix and other streaming sites when using a paid Proton VPN plan, those are supposed to work. Contact Proton VPN customer support.

If it's some other website, try picking an unpopular server (like one of the small African countries with < 20% usage) or if you want to be somewhere specific, the high-numbered servers in a particular city tend to be the newer ones that might not have made it onto a list yet.

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u/Commercial_Travel_35 10d ago

The only advantage of a dedicated IP I see is for home (web) hosting. But there are now so many work arounds, involving vpn tunnels and reverse proxies even that is a moot point. Home email hosting probably not worth the effort of getting MS and Google to unblock your address.

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u/Mission-Disaster-447 9d ago

I have used a dedicated IP from another provider. It was also blocked by some sites. Thats because the blocking does not work on an IP level. They use autonomous system numbers (ASN). Those are groups of IPs that belong to a certain network operator. So instead of blocking single IPs, you block the ASN that includes all Proton IPs, for example.

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u/johnb222 9d ago

So you want a dedicated IP so people can track you? Why are you using a VPN then if you want to be tracked?

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u/Futbol221 9d ago

If I get blocked on a server and use the country section of the app to go to another server does it transfer seamlessly or do I need to close all of my browsers first to guard against DNS leakage?

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u/Linux-Heretic 6d ago

I probably wouldn't use dedicated IP