[Shitpost] Government bodies that block your VPN

2026-04-18 12:31 UTC

I’m using Mullvad because I like their company. F***! These is no way I can formulate this sentence without it sounding weird… Anyway! It seems like the state’s websites and the municipalities’ websites allow Mullvad but the counties’ websites block it. What the actual f… 😂 What’s the situation in YOUR country/region? Are you able to do taxes, surf on healthcare related websites (hospitals etc) and on government bodies’ sites without issues?

Replies (7)

@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-18 14:46

I’m in the US. It varies widely. I think what happens sometimes, is we get caught up in anti-abuse lists. Sites see legit abuse coming from VPN IPs. After that happens enough, those IPs end up on anti-abuse filters. Then those blocklists are used by some sites, and not othrs, so some sites won’t work. There are also whole countries who block VPN now for social control. And others who talk about blocking them soon. That’s not the case where I live. But there are still many individual sites that use blocklists. There are also more sites using identity resolution services now. If the identity service can’t pin you to a human real life person, it increases your block score. If your block score is high enough, you get , um, blocked.

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@comrade_twisty@feddit.org 2026-04-18 16:25

I would never use a VPN for sites that require me to log in with my real name, in that case the VPN has no added value and you are actively sabotaging the privacy you're trying to gain by using a VPN for general browsing. In fact, I have a seperate browser for sites that require me to log in with my real identity.

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@nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-18 13:16

I'm in India, and most government websites block VPN usage. I have to turn off my VPN to access them. There is no other way. One more thing I have noticed is that when I using Mullvad's ad-blocking DNS (just the DNS, no VPN), many government sites do not load, as in the domain name does not get resolved.

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@airikr@lemmy.ml 2026-04-19 07:29

I can do whatever with Mullvad VPN here in Sweden besides of logging into my bank. They are blocking the Swedish servers for whatever reason so I just change to the Norwegian servers instead.

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@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2026-04-19 09:24

Tangentially related, but I tried to update Linux once but the downloads were super slow. I switched on my VPN and suddenly it updated super fast.

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@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 2026-04-18 16:02

From a security perspective it seems 100% the correct call for the government sites filtering out traffic that is probably used for fraud rather than legit purposes 99.9% of the time. How are you doing any those the tasks you mentioned without inputting your personal information into the government website? And I assume you are, so then why are you using a public VPN at that point unless your just trying to make things difficult. You can use a VPN to try and hide your activity from the government, but becomes a fools errand when you are purposefully interacting with the government.

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@shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 2026-04-18 13:47

Why do you use a VPN? I only use one when torrenting. Basically all my traffic is over HTTPS, and my DNS is encrypted via [NextDNS](https://nextdns.io/) so I don't think I need one usually

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