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agentorange
New Contributor II
4 months ago
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Cox webmail blocking Surfshark?

Anybody else seeing this? Since the turn of the year I've been unable to access my Webmail using a laptop equipped with Surfshark. I've tried changing my apparent location to no avail. Clearing cooki...
  • WiderMouthOpen's avatar
    WiderMouthOpen
    4 months ago

    Can't you turn off your VPN when you want to check you email? Also, I wonder if this will change when the transition to Yahoo mail comes. RI and VA have already began.

    And it's not that Cox thinks your a hacker, they just want to make sure you are logging in the US and there are some DNS prerequisites that most VPN IP don't have. As for overseas, request a whitelisting of your IP for webmail access. See here.

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agentorange
New Contributor II
4 months ago

So how long do you think it will be before VPNs are banned in the US? Unfortunately, it seems the US along with much of Western society is sliding towards an attitude of "if you could be getting up to something, you must be", so ban everything. Is that a free society? The continual 2nd amendment witch hunt is but one example.

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    Darkatt
    Valued Contributor III
    4 months ago

    So, why would you use a VPN?  To pretend to be elsewhere? To hide your activity? Quite frankly, a VPN slows you down, because your traffic is NOT, your device to internet to the VPN system, back to the internet to your destination, which then goes back to internet to the VPN system,  then from there back to you! BTW, I ran across a hacked VPN, where the hacker had access to everything and everyone using the vpn. That sounds peachy and safe.