VPNs effectively unusable with Cloudflare turnstile, jeopardizing personal security

What is the name of the domain?

dozens-of-websites.co

What is the issue you’re encountering

Cannot access dozens of websites with a VPN. This, in fact, jeopardizes my personal security in favour of site security.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

For example, Perplexity:

Their support says that their services do not work with VPNs because the Cloudflare turnstile is their security measure and that does not allow VPNs.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Try to access the Perplexity mobile app with any VPN.

Perplexity.ai website works fine for me over Windscribe VPN.

Testing the mobile app: will report shortly.

Not, according to Perplexity support.

Tested: the Perplexity app works fine for me over Windscribe VPN: both the VPN on my router and from the VPN app directly on the mobile device.

I’m not trying to downplay your problem, but it’s also not true that Cloudflare blocks all VPN connections.

But let’s call a spade a spade here: many VPN users do all sort of shady things behind those connections, leading to poor IP reputation for most VPN providers’ IP addresses and thus likely to trigger security challenges or even be blocked entirely.

Perhaps you can try another VPN, like the Windscribe I used.

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Mozilla and Mullvad VPN are not shady and essentially the same.

I never said any VPN service is shady.

What I said was people/users of public VPN services often do shady things behind them. And since the IP addresses are shared and not dedicated to the individual users, the result is collateral damage for all users.

@ad13 could you provide a Ray ID? We don’t outright block VPNs.

Sadly, no. I have never seen an error message.