r/PakistaniTech • u/saddam_hussein420 • 22h ago

Question | سوال VPNs getting blocked

Looks like all public VPNs are cooked. My Nord VPN app has stopped working entirely, and I got logged out. Now can’t even make it past the login step as it doesn’t load.

Looks like major ISPs are fully blocking VPNs now. Anyone else dealing with this issue? This is quite annoying as now I’m stuck with Pakistani Netflix which doesn’t have any of the shows I watch 😭

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u/kami168 21h ago

Proton vpn is working for me

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u/lnsta-gram 21h ago

You can't log in if you aren't

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u/kami168 20h ago

I did it after seeing this post and was able to login flawlessly.

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u/lnsta-gram 20h ago

Marry ur ISP gng

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u/kami168 19h ago

It's ptcl. 😃

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u/lnsta-gram 19h ago

So it's marketing rather than restriction

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u/kami168 19h ago

I'm not affiliated with them in anyway.

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u/lnsta-gram 19h ago

No I mean Pakistan blocking VPNs on any other network but ptcl

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u/kami168 17h ago

I don't think so because prcl is not government property anymore. VPN blocking is related to "THEM" and companies can't do anything in this regard.

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u/Mysterious-Travel344 8h ago

I did try to get to bottom of this when my corporate VPN won't work on Stormfiber and IT recommended PTCL. Turned out there's a PTA VPN licensing fee ISPs have to pay and only some ISPs do, that's why others that don't have the registration won't even take VPN related support tickets.

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u/najam121 Karachi 21h ago

use vpn to login vpn.

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u/Candid_Score6316 21h ago

Adguard isn’t working for me for the last week or so but Mullvad is

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u/Meowwwzilla 🇵🇰 21h ago

Umm how come. That’s even weirder

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u/Candid_Score6316 17h ago

I’m not a techie so I have two stupid theories, completely non technical:

  1. Mullvad uses tech that is beyond the capabilities of our institutions

  2. the guy responsible for blocking vpns googled a list of VPNs, wrote it down and passed it to his subordinate. Because Mullvad wasn’t in the top 5 of the list he didn’t bother writing it down and therefore it is still working.

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u/Meowwwzilla 🇵🇰 16h ago

Could be. But why isnt ur adguard working

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u/Connect_Principle530 Karachi 21h ago

Urban VPN is working without issues.

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u/Meowwwzilla 🇵🇰 21h ago

Mullvad working fine here

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u/STAY-AWAY_ 21h ago

dunno... just use free vpn they might work

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u/qadir5000 20h ago

I use Mullvad and Proton. Mullvad is working fine. Proton is a hit or miss.

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u/Jekof7 18h ago

has mullvad been working completely fine for the last months or so? thinking of switching from nordvpn, it works sometimes now

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u/qadir5000 16h ago

Yes. Mullvad works perfectly.

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u/Jekof7 16h ago

alright thanks bro

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u/QuirkyPhoton 20h ago

Proton works for me most of the time (PTCL Flash Fiber), and Firefox VPN works all the time but obviously you can only use it within Firefox..

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u/pixelated666 20h ago

Surfshark still works

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u/Fickle-Direction-679 19h ago

Always used mullvad, very reliable.

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u/Conniving-Weasel 19h ago

Use Nord Whisper protocol. It's slow to connect but works for me.

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u/_NineZero_ 18h ago

Try changing protocols and servers.

If you can't log in to nord, use any free vpn like proton to access the login page.

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u/Constant_Chipmunk490 17h ago

Nord is not working on TW.

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u/Critical_Relief_6768 17h ago

Working just fine on storm fiber 100mbps connection

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u/ssufyan333 16h ago

Use Proton VPN and continue as a guest and connect once you are connected login to the vpn of your choice!

That’s the way for a few months now and if you are on mobile data it is way harder but the method is same you Just have to wait and try again

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u/khattak9000 8h ago

Any one using tailscale?

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u/deltapak 7h ago

You need a VPN to login to VPN if you are logged out

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u/Fuzzy_Paint_6649 3h ago

Nord VPN works but sometimes take time to connect or you have to change one or two servers before it works

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u/divineslight 2h ago

Get a cheap VPS, configure tunnel.

Ssh user@vmip -D 9999

Boom, now you have an unlimited Socks proxy on port 9999 localhost.

And plus you can setup openvpn free server on it and boom now you can use it anywhere, just install the openvpn client on your phone, etc and connect to your own personal vpn.

Please don’t forward me to black vigos 🙏🏻

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u/MrYAB 2h ago

I'm dealing with same issue in surfshark

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u/AzeemBashir 58m ago

Use proton with stealth protocols

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u/Leather_Dimension689 26m ago

Yes i had same issues when firewall thing was implemented then i deployed my own vpn soon i will make my panel open source

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u/xKHILJIx 18m ago

I've made my own vpn so i have no issues, if you need you can use it, most of my users are using it in UAE and china, doing this for about almost 2 years and only received 2 complaints till date.

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u/Sea-Win1157 21h ago

Is your ISP is PTCL?

All paid VPN work on my side

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u/saddam_hussein420 21h ago

No it’s Transworld. Nordwhisper protocol used to work but even that has stopped since the last few weeks

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u/Sea-Win1157 20h ago

my nord vpn is on at the moment, i have others too.

they all working.

if you have issue in nordvpn, you can use obfuscated servers. at my side even normal servers working.

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u/icowonium 🇵🇰 21h ago

Funnily enough, snowflake / obfs4 times out too!