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The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/CryptoNiight on 2024-10-29 19:12:33.

As. many of you may already know, some major ISPs in the US are blocking Mullvad. My ISP also does this, but there's a workaround which solves the problem. Mullvad works with my ISP ONLY IF i've configured my Mullvad client to implement their SOCKS5 proxy. This works because an ISP most likely won't block port 1080 (which is the SOCKS5 port) because there are many legitimate non-torrenting reasons to use a SOCKS5 proxy. My IPS knows that I'm using a SOCKS5 proxy, but they don't know that the Mullvad VPN is being tunneled through the proxy because the Mullvad VPN IP address is hidden by the proxy. A copyright holder can determine that I'm using a SOCKS5 proxy, but the IP address is meaningless to them because it's completely anonymous - - they have no clue about who's using running the proxy or who's using it.

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