My bank website is not accessible using self hosted wireguard VPN on Digitalocean. I assumed that the website is detecting VPN using IP address. So I tried hosting VPN in Vultr and Kamatera. Same result as before, the bank website is not accessible.
- Lets assume for a moment that the bank website is identifying VPN connection using exit ip address. Is there any cloud provider whose IP address cannot be detected as public cloud?
- Does websites have other means to determine a VPN connection other than ip address?
Is there any cloud provider whose IP address cannot be detected as public cloud?
How would that work? Any IP can be on any form of list, and since you have likely no chance to know what list that bank is using, you cant find out.
Maybe find other customers of that bank, maybe there is a subreddit, a forum, facebook group, something. Maybe this is common knowledge and they have some hints.
To use a VPN with a public IP that is likely not on any such list you could find a friend that lives somewhere else, have them run a exitnode for you at their home. I think there are subs especially for finding people like that.
Does websites have other means to determine a VPN connection other than ip address?
Possibly. I kind of doubt that its actually the VPN directly causing it, but something else gets detected and blocks access. But thats more a question for /r/VPN, /r/Privacy /r/Cybersecurity and things like not, and not about selfhosting.
Does your bank’s site ask for your location from the browser? Location services use other information than your IP such as proximity to wifi access points and possibly GPS depending on the device.
This isn’t a self-hosted option, but Private Internet Access has a single IP address VPN option. Only you get to use it.
However, make sure you’re using it only in situations where your normal VPN isn’t being accepted by whatever service you’re using. Otherwise, that IP address is going to get its own fingerprint.
Cloud providers like Vultr have IP ranges that are assigned to Vultr. There are specialized companies like IPinfo.io, MaxMind or Digital Element that compile lists of IP addresses assigned to cloud companies or business ISPs and your bank probably subscribes to them.
Now there are companies called Residential Gateway providers that exist to work around this. They pay residential ISP users to run a proxy or VPN exit node on their home network. The service isn’t cheap, though.