News Proton VPN has more than doubled its network size – but does it matter?

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Been trying the free proton VPN. It'll push you to one that is in Europe at times so you start getting denied to some sites here because they think you're a hacker or make you prove you're a human. When I try to choose a US one after I check, it says you need to go pro. How can I test this when they do that?
 

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Been trying the free proton VPN. It'll push you to one that is in Europe at times so you start getting denied to some sites here because they think you're a hacker or make you prove you're a human. When I try to choose a US one after I check, it says you need to go pro. How can I test this when they do that?
Being hit with captchas and sometimes being blocked from sites outright is a problem with practically any VPN, simply because you're sharing the same IP address with many other users. If e.g. Google sees that the same IP is simultaneously sending traffic as 100 different users, they may want to make sure that it's actually you and not some script working with stolen access tokens or something like that. VPN providers can alleviate this by spreading their users across more individual IPs, but it's unlikely to completely fix that problem.