#Can't access discord.com with a VPN

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nova rampart
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Dunno why this is happening, but on Secureblue, if I have a VPN active (I've tried both Mullvad and Proton, and a few servers from each of them), I'm getting blocked from the Discord site. These same VPNs work fine on other devices for accessing Discord (Mac, iPhone, Android).
Doesn't seem to be specific to Trivalent (I tried the Brave Flatpak quickly to test, and got the same error). I also did a quick search of this server and didn't seem to find anyone else with this error, but maybe I missed something.

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Ah this is known to Proton at least, whose only solution is to use Firefox 😵‍💫

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Any other site I would just reroute with Control D but that will break VC

bright obsidian
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On Vesktop (a Discord desktop mod client) I had to switch to a MacOS user agent

nova rampart
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Yeah this is my plan at the moment

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Id rather just use the website

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but then I think you need an extension to consistently spoof UA

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so dunno which is the worse trade-off

nova rampart
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discord desktop client or extension scoped to just discord.com

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which makes me discord's bitch more?

bright obsidian
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For the record, I can access Discord just fine on the web with Proton VPN. I do have the Vencord extension installed though.

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I haven't tried it without Vencord to compare

maiden compass
maiden compass
feral arrow
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I'm on proton vpn and discord works just fine on trivalent, maybe discord blocked the specific proton server you're using?

maiden compass
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That does happen sometimes, for some reason only in Trivalent

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Mullvad has been a culprit a lot in the past for that

nova rampart
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I tried multiple servers from both mullvad and proton, all blocked

nova rampart
maiden compass
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I assume the desktop client would have the least friction, also more features. It is also decently less secure though, for a decent amount of reasons

maiden compass
nova rampart
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proton confirmed it on a reddit post

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Linux + chromium user agent coupled with a known VPN IP address

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^ this combo gives the block

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change any one of the three, and it works fine

maiden compass
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It might just be a narrow scoped rate limit. So they could re-block should one of the elements change? Idk

warm owl
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I use brave and mullvad vpn and this happens to me often. But It works as soon as I connect to canadian or american servers

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However this doesn't seem to work with Twitter and github. They for some reason don't even let me sign up.

worldly cedar
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the question is why?

warm owl
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Mullvad Is flagged on a lot of websites

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This Is the same case for most vpn's though.

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Surprisingly enough, when I signed up to github using riseup it did went through. But my account got flagged a day later and I'm shadow banned now.

worldly cedar
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I know I just set up vm vpn gateway with allowed vpn, then run my main with differnt vpn on the host. isp see mullvad, discord sees proton

warm owl
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That's kinda extreme

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But it all comes down to the threatmodel atlast.

worldly cedar
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no because aps can wifi scan and see you bssid/geoloaction. theres no system wide block. I dont like relying on single point like an app setting. Ive got apps blocking access to wifi scan and system wide via vm. Also the vm is a low attack surface cause it only used as vpn gateway, no browser, apps etc. You could easliy do other way around but vm are to slow....

nova rampart
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I installed an extension for switching UA for the time being, and only gave it access to discord.com

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works fine for now

maiden compass