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Idrive.com (backup) blocks VPN – without any message
1 point by pardner on May 19, 2023 | hide | past | favorite
Backup failed and attempts to reach the website timed out. Everything else worked fine, even Google worked without popping up a captcha.

Turns out iDrive is blocking certain IPs used by my VPN (Mullvad)... no message, just a timeout. I switched to a different VPN location and it worked fine.

It seems to me that even if a bad actor has caused an IP address to get blocked, the right response would be some type of message (as opposed to a timeout).




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