Realtor.com blocking me

VPN
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I subscribe to realtor.com emails telling me about new homes for sale. In the last couple of days I’ve gotten “blocked IP” messages because I’m using a VPN. Is anyone else seeing this?

I’ve seen the same from craigslist.org and amazon.com. I use a vpn to protect my privacy but it seems like more and more sites are blocking you if you don’t submit to their full data submission demands.

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That’s pretty much what’s going on.

A lot of sites are starting to block cloud and VPN IPs. discussions.apple.com, for example, doesn’t allow IPs from AWS.

Nothing you can really do about it, except try a different VPN node or a different provider altogether.

Edit: link

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generally speaking, the more expensive of a VPN you use, the more IPS’ it has and the more it gets new ip’s and the more it spends in man hours unblacklisting ip’s which will prevent this.

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Craigslist has been doing this for years ever since the Craigslist killer struck. Its a safety thing for their users.

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Try to use another VPN provider with less flagged IP addresses.

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That may be specific to your one VPN service. Try other servers from your service or get a new service.

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Yep, ExpressVPN user here, the discussion apple link won’t load at all. Can’t try connecting to another server as i’m downloading something but just throwing it out there. (Connecting to Miami)

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You put the wrong link for Apple Discussions. The correct link is https://discussions.apple.com, and that seems to load fine for me while on my VPN.

EDIT: Paging /u/danielsuarez369; can you try that link and see if it works?

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Well shit, works now, thanks man haha

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Whoops. Thanks.

Still doesn’t work for me. I am “not allowed”

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Ah, unlucky. You could try connecting to different servers on your VPN, in case it’s one particular server that got blocked for whatever reason, but you’ll have to find a new provider or wait until your provider adds new servers if they’re all blocked.

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I run my VPSs; have tried AWS, Azure, and now OVH.

I can still get on from OVH, but I’ve tried quite a few IPs from AWS/Azure and none of them have worked. Pretty sure Apple is just blocking their entire IP space.