A TCP RST (reset) is a way some devices politely kill a socket. Some firewalls and proxies do this instead of just dropping all packets on that socket, which is a bit rude. You could take a trace with Wireshark and see which device is issuing the RST.
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Opera's "VPN" behaves much more like a simple proxy than true VPN; and because it obfuscates less than a true VPN it does not tend to trigger whatever "anti-VPN" measures that sites might put in place.
right I suggested it as an easy troubleshooting step
got this reply to it
so I wanted specifics because mine failed yet besides being slow.
A full vpn can have shared IPs and sometimes those get blacklisted among other issues.
If they arent just blacklisted for being known VPN IP addresses.
OT: The "main page" of content rich sites such as local and national news maybe not be blocked but i have found (using VPN) that the service hosting the audio and video clips will not stream content on my iPhone unless ProtonVPN is turned off. Many sites (perhaps not the ones you mentioned) are a conglomeration of services provided by many providers and each has a distinct policy WRT serving content to VPN address spaces.
Providers such as Amazon and MS Azure have world wide visibility into active threats and may be responding by blocking in real time to specific "events"
I haven't kept track of which specific websites had been rejecting my VPN connections, when I run across the problem I simply disconnect from the VPN if I really want or need to get in. Two categories seem to be more prevalent, video streaming services and .gov websites, although I don't seem to be running across the problem as often as I used to. For example, Amazon Prime Video was rejecting my VPN connection, they aren't anymore.
I have recently been using Surfshark and I was using IPVanish before it.
Lowes blocks VPNs - https://lowes.com
Many sites will challenge all known VPN prefixes, because they are the source of 99% of spam bots.
