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Apparently 94% of organizations say cyberattacks are now coming through VPNs or residential proxies. Which honestly explains why the entire internet suddenly treats VPN users like supervillains.

You open a site and instantly get hit with:

- “Verify you are human”
- another CAPTCHA
- email verification
- phone verification
- “suspicious activity detected”

Like damn bro I’m just trying to log in...

The craziest part is that a lot of this isn’t even regular VPN traffic anymore. Attackers are using residential proxies so their traffic looks like it’s coming from random normal households instead of datacenters. Basically hiding in plain sight.

Now every company sees anonymized traffic and immediately assumes you’re either a bot, a scammer, or some guy trying to brute force accounts from his basement.

Feels like cybercriminals found the exploit and the rest of us got nerfed because of it.

Russia spent years trying to kill VPNs… and now even Putin’s own Human Rights Council is admitting it’s basically impossible.

Valery Fadeev said banning or “switching off” VPNs could literally “break the internet” in Russia because businesses, banks, developers, and normal services all depend on them now.

What’s funny is this comes after months of throttling YouTube, blocking VPN users from Russian apps, talking about charging extra fees for VPN traffic and pushing people onto state-controlled platforms

Turns out modern economies kinda need an open internet to function.

Authoritarian governments always think they can build a “national internet” until companies start losing money and basic services stop working. Then suddenly VPNs aren’t so “unnatural” anymore.

Reuters just reported that small businesses across Russia are getting absolutely cooked by VPN bans, Telegram outages, and random mobile internet shutdowns. A lot of people moved their businesses to Telegram after Instagram got nuked, so now every time the government messes with the internet, entire shops basically go offline. Customers can’t order, payments fail, support disappears… total chaos.

The wild part is this doesn’t just hit activists anymore. It’s regular people trying to make money and survive. Imagine your government breaking the internet every other week “for security reasons” while your business bleeds customers because messages won’t even load.

At some point you’re not “protecting the country,” you’re just DDOSing your own economy.

Just read about what’s happening in Kashmir. People working remote tech jobs, freelancers, cybersecurity guys, even regular employees connecting to foreign companies are getting screwed because authorities decided VPNs are some kind of criminal tool now.

Like bro… half the modern internet runs through VPNs. Companies REQUIRE them. Banks use them. Journalists use them. Anyone who cares about privacy uses them. But now people are apparently getting their phones checked for VPN apps and some workers are thinking about leaving the region entirely just to keep their jobs.

This is what always happens when governments start treating privacy like a threat instead of a right. They say it’s about “security” but normal people end up paying the price while actual criminals just move to different tools anyway.

Crazy timeline where using basic internet privacy tools makes you look more suspicious than corporations vacuuming up everyone’s data 24/7.