I can’t use openai without vpn please unblock me

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Hello，I can’t use openai without vpn please unblock me.

Sorry, you have been blocked

If you believe this was a mistake, please contact us through our help center [Ray ID:7c62dfba4b88ec50]

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this is a cloudflare block
what country are you in ?

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I got this message

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CloudFlare has blocked you. Where are you located?

Are you trying to connect through a VPN or web-proxy?

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Locate in China. I am using VPN for that. I can use playground, but can not jump to chat-openai-
com

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As far as I know OpenAI does not offer ChatGPT in China.

They are not going to help you.

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hmmm. OK, just waiting for that :sweat_smile:

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poor boy. Just use your phone as a proxy. Its free. I use an app called “servers unlimited” for random stuff, one of which is a proxy server.
Sometimes your ip range is blocked automatically by accident. thats why that trick is so useful.

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funny i accidentally had the same issue because i had a VPN on.
To prevent this error you need a residential proxy and not a datacenter proxy

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Sorry, you have been blocked

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Have you contacted the help chat?

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I get a message about being blocked for using a VPN. I am not using one and can’t find where to contact anyone through the Help Center to get unblocked.

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It may take a different browser, such as Microsoft Edge, to get the poorly-coded help assistant icon at the lower right of help.openai.com to appear.

Then the middle “messages” and ask directly about the account problem that staff are needed to fix.

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Thank you for that reply. I have been using Chrome and will give another browser a shot.

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“riseup VPN” it’s free and you can pick a few different countries…

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Why would you want to do that? Are you trying to give tipps to get around country restrictions?

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Not me… By default my OS chooses Iceland to source it’s IP via tunneling… idk the OS or network structure of this user . But I am located in Washington DC… I NEVER have a Washington DC IP therefore my “location data” is never correct… I have to choose New York from my VPN to use many services… even though in physically located in the USA… … I could set my machine to not bridge from startup… but none of my work actually requires chatgpt … I only really use chatgpt to make the NPCs in my games more fun… I write programs for chatgpt because people use them… as far as bypassing ToS … no not my intention… but I do completely understand a system that looks like it’s where it isnt