Most certainly due to the country/state you are in. Another reason for a good logless VPN. Aside from privacy so you can torrent in peace since it also encrypts traffic so your ISP can't bitch about copyright shit and threaten to ban your account it's easy enough to change one's region as well to where shit like that doesn't happen. This is just tip of the iceburg. Just last year you can't even access Pornhub or Xvideos and watch their free vanilla shit anymore if the IP is originating from Kentucky or Indiana (probably others, I just happen to stumble on those). Why? Because the buncha idiots in suits in their state capitals thought it was a good idea to start requiring ID to access porn sites. Rather than the sites having to keep records, risk database breaches where millions of ID's potentially get stolen and other headaches to keep those state AG's off their backs they simply block IP's from those states, but it's an easy work-around for end-users with a VPN (which anyone that gives a shit about privacy should have anyway): simply change IP to elsewhere. Unless you are playing an online shooter game the extra 100-200ms of lag even from the opposite side of the world will not make a difference. All of that they did was totally pointless and easy enough to ignore, particularly if a site isn't even in the US to where they don't need to give a shit about some obscure US state's porn laws but I guess one useless politician or another got some bragging rights for the next election for it where their potential voters are morons and apparently easy to please (prob mostly old ladies thinking "oh well, useless law, but at least it's the thought that counts, right?"). Another example of lawyers that know relatively nothing about tech making tech laws. As far as SS, fuck those guys, other than a couple of low-tier stragglers I still have to move to Unifans I either unsubbed or downgraded everyone to free tier last month, they are now on my do-not-give-them-profits/shit list the same as Patreon has been the last 7 years. I don't even visit the site nearly as often as I used to (maybe every 2 weeks to check on progress of the free subs instead of daily).