Browsing as a VPN user

[Hazy-Haze]

So i use VPN's (but am verified so you know who I am).

Occasionally the site will keep triggering the bot detection logic which makes me authenticate over and over. Is it possible to link that bot detection logic to whether a person is logged in. So if a person has logged in to the site with a verified status, the logic no longer triggers (most likely not a bot if they have an account and plugged in their details along with a scrip to get verified)?

The thing that gets me today is yesterday i was using the same VPN location and the bot detection triggered once and today it's like every 5 mins it triggers. Irksome when writing a long reply.

 

[TheGreenAvenger]

I have passed this on to @Muiredach who will be able to give you a concise answer

 

[Hazy-Haze]

Thanks.

 

[NuggetofGreen]

So i use VPN's (but am verified so you know who I am).

Occasionally the site will keep triggering the bot detection logic which makes me authenticate over and over. Is it possible to link that bot detection logic to whether a person is logged in. So if a person has logged in to the site with a verified status, the logic no longer triggers (most likely not a bot if they have an account and plugged in their details along with a scrip to get verified)?

The thing that gets me today is yesterday i was using the same VPN location and the bot detection triggered once and today it's like every 5 mins it triggers. Irksome when writing a long reply.

I have had the same issue in addition to the website occasionally blocking me when using a vpn

 

[TheGreenAvenger]

Thanks.

I have had the same issue in addition to the website occasionally blocking me when using a vpn

Spoke to @Muiredach earlier and whilst he has signed off for the night he did give me this reply.

"Has to be up for now, spam traffic earlier bought the server to a halt."

We do apologise for any inconvenience caused, such measures are merely a server precaution and temporary as the server comes under some intense traffic at times

 

[NuggetofGreen]

Spoke to @Muiredach earlier and whilst he has signed off for the night he did give me this reply.

"Has to be up for now, spam traffic earlier bought the server to a halt."

We do apologise for any inconvenience caused, such measures are merely a server precaution and temporary as the server comes under some intense traffic at times

No worries. I've similar issues on amazon prime, bbc, YouTube. Ironically all the online safety advises people to use a vpn but web architecture doesn't like it ;p

 

[TheGreenAvenger]

No worries. I've similar issues on amazon prime, bbc, YouTube. Ironically all the online safety advises people to use a vpn but web architecture doesn't like it ;p

I get issues with the TV apps like BBC, ITV, Channel 4 etc using Proton VPN from time to time, pain the arse!

Geo restrictions come in to play a lot of the time though!

 

[Hazy-Haze]

GeoIP is fun. Using the London IP on my VPN it said I was in Portland, then google maps said I was in Moscow, then the next day I was in Brazil, then Virginia. but maybe that indicates a VPN company that are actively fuxing with GeoIP requests and making it seem like you are everywhere and nowhere.

Let @Muiredach know it's fine. If that is the cost of mitigating attacks, then so be it.

I worked out some IP's don't even trigger it. Like I used Manchester tonight and it didn't even ask, it just connected straight away. FTR, the company I use offers a browser plugin, so in reality i'm doing a double VPN (OVPN to first exit, then browser plugin creates a second hop back from there), as my first hop is elsewhere in the world and then comes back, but yeah it's kind of crazy when you think it over. Life was definltely simpler and probably better before the internet and everyone spying on everyone else. When OpSec was whether you put a password on a zip file before putting it on a floppy to sneakernet to some other computer. Nowadays it's just layers and layers of encryption and obfuscation. :/