Ask HN: Do you still shop at Newegg now that they have blocked VPN?

5 points by joering2 2y ago ↗ HN

I found myself moving back to shop at Amazon after Newegg went out of their way to block ExpressVPN and Nord. I have too many people using VPN at my office to disable it, even temporarily. Do you guys know any other solutions?

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cranberryturkey 2y ago ↗

why would you need a vpn to use newegg?

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Nostromos 2y ago ↗

Why do you use a VPN?

ian0 2y ago ↗

Not the OP, but perhaps because they live in a country where the gov blocks lots of useful websites, or they want to see public broadcast material (Eg pbs/bbc) from other countries, or because their ISP sells barely anonymised data to 3rd parts in bulk and on the cheap.

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gtirloni 2y ago ↗

You can thank all the scalpers scraping the website every second and possibly trying to circumvent blocks with VPNs.