I had to switch to iVPN last year (similar ethos), because Mullvad became pretty much unusable due to blacklisting and laggy DNS servers.
I'm assuming it has something to do with the push in recent years to expand their userbase, but they don't seem to be able to keep a clean enough pool of IPs like the big popular ones to cope. I know all VPNs struggle with this but it was getting ridiculous, where every single server in a country would receive infinite re-captcha.
iVPN is a great choice in terms of security, they also use STboot, but I think you're just flying under the radar with their IPs because they struggle with the same problems as Mullvad.
Yes, it only works better because the obscurity to IP ratio is good. It could easily be as bad as mullvad if they became more popular. But as I understand it the really popular VPNs address this with huge pools of servers and IP cycling?
One other issue I had with Mullvad that put the nail in the coffin for me was randomly laggy DNS resolvers, they would get fixed just by the time I start investigating it, but it kept happening... I say this as a mostly happy user for probably 7 years, but then found myself having to turn it off more than on to be able to access most sites.
> where every single server in a country would receive infinite re-captcha.
What does that even mean? Have you also disabled cookies?
Typically it's a Cloudflare captcha if you're doing that, not a re-captcha. And afaik pretty much everyone gets this treatment with zero history. Welcome to the modern web.
They’re referring to the situation when a service has blacklisted you, but will pretend they haven’t and give you captcha after captcha to keep you busy.
Yup, I found a shortcut to determining this is to use the audio option, which will instantly admit you are blocked due to "suspicious network activity" rather than make you solve stuff - i guess because of accessibility?
Cloudflare recently started holding stackoverflow hostage as well. "Weird" OS + "weird" browser + cookie autodelete = www is hell, even on clearnet. I hate cloudflare so much it's unreal, including everyone who works for them, for enabling this nonsense.
I'm assuming it has something to do with the push in recent years to expand their userbase, but they don't seem to be able to keep a clean enough pool of IPs like the big popular ones to cope. I know all VPNs struggle with this but it was getting ridiculous, where every single server in a country would receive infinite re-captcha.