Low Profile VPN Servers/IPs
Almost all Proton IPs are polluted with bad reputation due to various malicious acts made through its VPN. This is really really annoying for good users.
I think a large percentage of malicious acts made on Proton VPN servers are done via new accounts that are pretty quickly banned by Proton and by victims- but it still leaves a bad trace on the history of that ip.
I propose a solution that could at least reduce ip pollution for quite a few users- what if we had few servers (or ips) that you only get access to after a year of subscription- by then if you were to act bad you’ll already be banned.
it is not the best solution but at least its something
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I like Proton :p
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Yes, they can lock down the whole web on IPv4 and force everyone onto IPv6. In practice most regular traffic is already on IPv6- it’s the legacy stuff that still clings to IPv4.
I’m not pushing a “premium lane”. I just want a lane without potholes.
Maybe I wasn’t clear the initial comment. It doesn’t have to be “pay‑to‑get‑in”. I like to think of it as a reputation‑based tier: if you’ve kept a free/paid/whatever account alive for X months, you earn access to servers that carry less load, cleaner IPs.
IPv4 has been a reputation game forever. That’s why you get hit with CAPTCHAs. a throwaway account abuses an IP, gets banned, and the IP/subnet stays polluted for weeks. And Proton, does not differ between paid and free servers, so you have to keep hopping until you find a clean ip that lets you watch Youtube without login.
Side note: Proton "Mail" already plays the reputation game. Google will accept guy@pm.me but not guy.carrot496@passmail.net. Proton Mail promised to be a good boy, and now auto‑flags anyone trying to register multiple Google accounts under the same @pm.me address, even though that’s none of Proton business. Aand Google can't block the entire mail space..
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Zeno
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Absolutely not. What you are proposing is to accelerate the death of any hope of Net Neutrality. If anything we should poison MORE IPs, they can't block the entire web. This is a problem caused by ISPs, and a premium lane is not the answer