Free VPN servers are dead or refuse to connect
Free-tier VPN servers are dead, missing or refuse to connect, so most locations never work.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
8 public reports · first reported 8 April 2025 · last reported 29 May 2026
What's going wrong
Users on the free plan say most of the server list is unusable: servers time out, return gateway errors, show certificate warnings or never start a connection, and some countries are absent entirely.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 8 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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