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c/banned-beyond-borders•charles_colemancharles_coleman•13d agoProlific Poster

Lost $45 on a VPN that got banned in Turkey last month

I paid for a year subscription to PrivateVPN in January to access news sites while visiting family in Istanbul, but by March the government blocked all their servers and I couldn't connect anywhere. Support said they're working on it but no fix yet and now I'm stuck with a useless service. Has anyone else had a VPN provider just give up on a region like that?
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wren_carr
wren_carr13d ago
PrivateVPN basically ghosted the whole region instead of actually trying to fix anything.
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abby_henderson
abby_henderson13d ago
Lebanon here. They blocked all P2P traffic back in 2019 during the protests. PrivateVPN just threw their hands up. No warning, no refund, nothing. I lost a whole weekend of work because their killswitch failed too. That's the part that gets me - they didn't even try to get a local server or partner with a local ISP. Just checked out completely.
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