RD mass-blocks SurfShark UK users
Hot on the heels of last week's surprise-ban-and-reversals linked to exposed WebDAV credentials, RealDebrid has today warned users not to use the SurfShark UK region, since it's apparently caused a whole batch of auto-bans:
Hundreds of sharing warnings have been sent in the last few hours, common denominator seems to be users from United Kingdom using @surfshark as VPN.
— Real-Debrid (@RealDebrid) October 28, 2024
The problem started 5 hours ago, we are investigating.
Seems like the problem is a pool of Residential ISP IPs used by Surfshark.
The Netherlands SurfShark region is safe though:
Do not use UK as VPN Location on Surfshark, it is using random Residential ISP IPs as output, prefer Netherlands (major Internet hub in Europe) to avoid any issue.
— Real-Debrid (@RealDebrid) October 28, 2024
RealDebrid followed up by complaining about SurfShark's poor speed in the UK region:
@surfshark Please fix your issues, it is also generating very low speeds for our common clients still connected to UK .. pic.twitter.com/bkfJFZhMvW
— Real-Debrid (@RealDebrid) October 28, 2024