I just realized that RT (dot com) is inaccessible when Mullvad is enabled, even with all content blockers turned off. It says the DNS lookup failed. I tried from various countries too.

This post is not about endorsing or condemning any particular site, I just want to know if anyone knows whether there could be a technical reason for this? Or are we just banning sites we don’t like now?

Edit: Solved. RT is blocking some Mullvad nodes, not the other way around. Works with a random Albania server and I assume some others.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I do not use Mullvad, however, I have had the same issue with sites, not rt(.com) in particular, but others. All I do is switch locales and usually the problem clears up. I haven’t figured out exactly why. A lot of VPN IPs have a tendency to be abused and so a certain website may have blacklisted your IP number of the VPN locale you were/are using. Could be some scenario such as this.