It’s nearly impossible to browse the marketplace or edit your avatar with a VPN enabled on the Roblox website. Things just fail to load and network traffic shows requests returning with 429 status code.
The x-ratelimit-limit header is showing 60, 60;w=60, 60;w=60 which tells me I can make 60 requests in 60 seconds, I’m not even making 2 requests in 60 seconds and I get severely rate limited, telling me to retry after 5 seconds in the retry-after header. Even after waiting 5 seconds then refreshing, I still get rate limited. The x-ratelimit-remaining header also shows 56, so how am I getting rate limited here?
I personally use a VPN for security and using Roblox is insanely difficult, 90% of the time the Roblox catalog doesn’t even load or says it’s unavailable, same with the avatar page so I have to make these changes on my phone with no VPN.
There has also been times where when I use a VPN, the website works fully, but I literally cannot join a game as it says unauthorized.
Roblox should 100% reduce their IP strictness as it affects anyone using a VPN, I understand it is likely to reduce the automated bots that spam on Roblox but regardless there will always be bots that simply use residential proxy networks to evade this security (is FunCaptcha not enough).
Absolutely, and I think they’ve been moving away from those freaky dog head on octopus body captchas and started implementing single click captchas which I would assume run in the background to determine if you’re a bot (can be seen when joining a group).
My question is to the developers of Roblox is: why not request the user to verify with a captcha when suspicious of bot activity, like using a public VPN, instead of outright killing the website for them?
I see this is marked as fixed, which is hard to believe, as I have consistent issues similar to OP, trying to use Roblox with a public VPN (ProtonVPN in this case). I should note that I do have NetShield and Split tunneling enabled (but Split tunneling is only excluding two applications)
In fact its so bad with my VPN I can’t even open studio sessions sometimes (but sometimes I can?).
This is on Proton servers with an incredibly low load as well, I’ve never connected to high traffic servers.
Just wanted to bring this up for any Roblox staff that might stumble across this, this issue is absolutely not fixed.
Yeah and like I said prior, most people who are running successful Roblox bots are using residential proxies, so this is really only harming what is to be considered “datacenter” proxies, like the ones used by popular VPN providers.
Exact same situation for me. Super frustrating not only from a privacy perspective, but every single time that you get a 403 error from having VPN on while connecting to a game, it resets all of your Roblox settings in-game and in-studio…
