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 Savages 
 Gross, what site? 
 Whaaaa. Site? 
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 I'm seeing this a lot recently 
 how they manage to link your personal IP to your VPN IP address 
 only the VPN provider has that info
and that depends on the VPN provider 
 if you visit a web page and then turn off VPN and refresh these two pieces of info are trivially linked

you've revealed a lot of information that forms a fingerprint even without an IP address. Now the site provider can trivially link these two IP addresses.

what's more is that they're probably using a CDN like AWS CloudFront who also see this info and they've probably seen your browser fingerprint and VPN IP on other sites they host, so they know who you are as an entity and can just trace back your non-VPN IP address to your ISP that knows all your identity info.

best strategy here is to retry the site with another device, or wait a few days and try without VPN from the start 
 fair points

wouldn't another solution be to use several VPN endpoints? you may have tainted one but not all

but yes, privacy in the internet these days is hard. we may have tainted somethings we take for hidden 
 maybe, although you might get blocked for using a VPN again! 😅 
 Nuts 😢 
 Worst 
 Boycott any site/app that does this 
 I hate this 
 Should be criminal to block vpns 
 VPN use isn't their business. just load the page  
 one day I hope to go completely offline or only go with software systems like Nostr. 
 What site 
 Blocking vpns is a crime against humanity 
 twiit twiit ! 
 Infelizmente não é raro isso acontecer. Às vezes trocar o país resolve, às vezes só se  "entregando" para eles que parece resolver.

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 Is that cloudflare?

Because almost all "crypto" companies use cloudflare nowadays to "protect" their privacy conscious users from using their offerings.

That sounds like a real fiat thing to do.

 
 Wondering what site is it? Some streaming one? Guess? 
 wanna tell us which site that was? How can they even know? 
 I get great mileage out of small cloud instances, where I install wireguard as my own personal VPN. Extra points if it's a cloud service you pay for with Bitcoin/lightning. 

I have seen one time this type of IP was blocked. Can't remember the site. Probably HitBTC, when I was dumping some chain split bags. The worst euro exchange. 
 aff, não é o primeiro site que pego com essa restrição 
 Mude o local da VPN. Quase sempre isso resolve pra mim.