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VPN causes me two constant headaches.
1. If I want a shopping site to give me information about local stores (e.g., Home Depot), my VPN says I’m over in Seattle or Los Angeles and I get information about what’s in stock at those Home Depot stores.
2. Lots of graphics won’t display correctly if you are using a VPN. Pookie’s Toons often won’t load unless I turn the VPN off.


5 posted on 11/25/2025 5:55:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
VPN causes me two constant headaches.

1. If I want a shopping site to give me information about local stores (e.g., Home Depot), my VPN says I’m over in Seattle or Los Angeles and I get information about what’s in stock at those Home Depot stores.

2. Lots of graphics won’t display correctly if you are using a VPN. Pookie’s Toons often won’t load unless I turn the VPN off.

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3. Hard sometimes to get things like Youtube (and other Google-owned sites) to work now... between them blocking VPNs and hating on adblock program... They use the excuse of blocking bots or "for the children".

4. If you use a VPN for some games and you make the mistake of either turning it on one time or turning it off sometimes, they mark you as a suspecious user or even put you down as a bot account. Lost a Guild Wars (1) account doing that once (10 years of playing).

26 posted on 11/25/2025 8:22:13 PM PST by LowOiL (In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
VPN causes me two constant headaches. 1. If I want a shopping site to give me information about local stores (e.g., Home Depot), my VPN says I’m over in Seattle or Los Angeles and I get information about what’s in stock at those Home Depot stores.

Isn't this like using falsified return-address labels, and then complaining when your undeliverable mail isn't returned to you?

Regards,

30 posted on 11/25/2025 11:42:14 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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