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pixelesquetoday at 6:49 AM1 replyview on HN

> 4. Allowing you to bypass geo-restrictions on certain content.

In theory, but as someone who uses Mullvad in the UK on a day-to-day basis on my personal laptops (not my phone) - I'm using it now, I'm afraid there's quite an additional downside I've found, in that because Mullvad's (at least UK, but also French and Dutch ones I've tried) exit IPs are known, many companies (Cloudflare, Akamai) at the very least know about them, and several sites block access when using Mullvad, returning 403s.

Santander bank for example, I can't always (sometimes I can) connect to when using Mullvad, and sometimes have to turn it off, as I get 403 responses from the bank otherwise (using Firefox).

Sometimes using IPv6 in the Mullvad settings gets around this, but more and more recently I've found it doesn't, so there sites where I'm having to stop using Mullvad to actually access sites.

(I'm still a happy customer, and 1 to 3 are still true and why I use it otherwise).


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ThePowerOfFuettoday at 8:40 AM

>Santander bank for example, I can't always (sometimes I can) connect to when using Mullvad, and sometimes have to turn it off, as I get 403 responses from the bank otherwise

Rotating your VPN endpoint will resolve the issue. It might take two or three tries.