Have the orb-thing show if a specific site disables user using a VPN

Grooty

In this thing:
have it also show whether you can access the specific website with a VPN or not. Possibly also show a warning, like with sites that have a lot of trackers:
Have it be a different colour or something like that to indicate that it disallows VPNs

carl

Doesn't this depend on which VPN you use?

Grooty

carl Hmmm, I think the sites that block VPN's block a wide range of them. Though it will also depend on server location, etc. I think choosing a fairly large VPN provider (Nord, Proton, etc.) and a fairly common server would mitigate the issue of false positive/negative as much as possible.

Edit: https://www.ip2proxy.com/ I don't know how many websites use this service, but if they do, I don't think server/VPN-provider makes that much of a difference

buteo

I don't know if there's a clean way to know if a site blocks your particular exit address without trying to connect to it.

I feel that red shield next to a result is already a kind of proxy indicator, though—websites with a lot of trackers and ads are often pretty hostile to VPN and Tor use, and probably aren't worth my time even if I can reach them.
With that said, I feel I run into far more sites that peg me as a bot because I connect with JS disabled rather than blocking me outright for using a VPN.

Grooty

buteo Would it be possible to detect sites saying VPN-users are bots? I would hope so but am unsure

Vlad

Not sure how would we detect something like this? Any ideas?