From time to time some websites will block my access if I’m using NordVPN. However, using Obfuscated Servers seems to get around this. Is there any reason not to use Obfuscated Servers all the time?
Depends on your network to begin with. Is this a home private network? Public such as a cafe? School? Work? If it’s not your home network, they’re most likely blocking sites so by using obfuscated servers presents your VPN traffic as HTTPS so firewalls in schools or work places don’t block your traffic or sites. I hope this helps.
It will increase latency, like using any vpn would with or without obfuscation. But unless you’re gaming or something else where latency can really matter that wouldn’t be an issue for the most part.
Also a vpn connection requires some cpu resources to encrypt/decrpyt every packet. If you get say, 800Mb/s incoming bandwidth you will certainly lose most of that by using a vpn (there are exceptions like Wireguard). OpenVPN doesn’t tend to get speeds even at 200Mb/s. Usually 80Mb/s-150Mb/s depending on your hardware and the server’s resources too. Which is still enough for most things, most users would notice large downloads are slower though.
Obfuscation is pretty easy to spot and detect if someone is looking for it. Not sure if your ISP would do anything about it, but it mainly just gets past some firewalls and doesn’t actually go undetected by someone looking for it. Most ISPs don’t care though. I’m just saying they can tell you are using a vpn regardless of obfuscation.
A slight increase in overhead, so slower speeds by a little. Nord talks about it like it’s for political freedom fighters mostly, but I assume that’s just them not wanting to support it for *everybody*.
Home network or mobile phone network. The sites are not blocked when not using VPN. But if I turn on my VPN without obfuscated servers they stop me from connecting. If i just use obfuscated servers I’m fine, i was just wondering if there is a downside to using them. The problem only occurs on a handful of website, for example: playstationtrophies.org
Thank you for the answer.
Haha. I noticed the political freedom fighters stuff on their website. I only use it because its convenient to not get blocked for using a VPN