Ask HN: Is there anyway besides a private VPN to make the Internet less hostile?
One issue I always encounter when I&#x27;m out of the USA is how hostile the Internet is.<p>Captchas upon endless Captchas designed to create friction, geoblocking, inability to log onto financial services because of very basic conditional access rules that don&#x27;t take into account 2FA whitelisting.<p>Of course the customer service is non-existent, automated, or simply does not comprehend what I&#x27;m talking about and defaults to my &quot;computer&quot; is broken.<p>Running an VPN on an Azure&#x2F;AWS&#x2F;Digital Ocean instance is not viable because the whole ip range is blocked by automated services like cloudflare, even if it&#x27;s static.<p>This also applies to public VPN vendors like PrivateInternetAccess. You also run the risk of being commingled w&#x2F; other &quot;malicious&quot; users and general account bans by IP address from basic meta data analysis (Time&#x2F;Date + IP address + Account accessed = disable access basically.) and then have to beg to be enabled, further confirm your identity and minimize plausible deniability for &quot;risk management.&quot;<p>Besides running a VPN from a residential node, is there something I&#x27;m missing?