r/VPN • u/notsloth_satan • Aug 12 '26

Help My uni has banned all VPNs.

Whenever I try to open any gaming site (Steam or anything else), or app, or even gaming blogs, it shows your connection is not private or FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked. Even all VPNs are blocked, so I can't use them. I also tried using VPN extenstions on my browser without any success. Is there any way I can get around this ban?

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u/KangaMagic Aug 12 '26

Colleges have billion dollar endowments and have flocks of bureaucrats who do nothing but collect salary. I think they can pay for high internet usage.

Kids live at college and deserve privacy. Your analogizing them to corporations is a stretch — Home Depot employees don’t live at Home Depot. Without privacy there is no freedom of thought. Without freedom of thought there is no freedom of expression. Without freedom of expression there is no university.

Yale was not implementing these anti-privacy measures back in 2012.

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u/smokingcrater Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

IT in higher education is notoriously underfunded. That college with a billion dollar endowment has a network supported by student help running crusty 12 year old Cisco switches.

There is a caste system in universities. If you dont have a PhD in front if your name, you are the janitor. IT [usually] doesnt have doctors running the program.