# Blocking VPNs and proxies in anonymous voting

New polls reject anonymous votes that come through a VPN, a proxy or the Tor network. What gets blocked, what does not, and how to turn it off.

2026-09-27 · Cibernatural · News · 2 min read

On GloboPoll, people who vote without an account vote once: the vote is counted per connection and per browser. The weak spot of that rule is well known. A VPN hands out a new connection every time it is switched on, and in a controversial poll someone will always use that to vote again.

From today, polls can **reject anonymous votes that come through a VPN, a proxy or the Tor network**. The option is **on for new polls** and one checkbox turns it off.

## What gets blocked

- **Commercial VPNs** and public **proxies**.
- **Tor exit nodes**.
- Connections coming out of a **data centre**, which is where automated scripts vote from.

Anyone voting that way sees a clear message: "This poll does not accept votes through a VPN or proxy. Turn it off and vote again". If the poll accepts votes with an account, they can also sign in and vote with it.

## What does not get blocked

- **Votes with an account or an invitation.** There, one vote per person does not depend on the connection, so you can vote with your VPN on.
- **iCloud Private Relay**, Safari's privacy feature on iPhone and Mac. Its connections sit in the same lists as VPNs, and we exclude them one by one.
- **Mobile and home networks**, even when many people share a connection.

## What we store

Nothing new. The check runs on our servers, without sending your connection to third parties, and **we do not record who was using a VPN**: we only count how many votes were rejected, to make sure we are not blocking people we should not.

## How to change it

In the editor, **Settings** tab, checkbox **"Block votes from VPNs and proxies"**. In trial polls without an account, the checkbox is in the form itself. Polls that already existed stay as they were: if you want the block on one of them, turn it on there.

It is free on every plan. No block of this kind is perfect, and if your poll needs a stronger guarantee, what provides it is voting with an account or with a single-use invitation.

## Other languages

- [es](https://es.globopoll.com/es/blog/block-vpn-votes)
- [de](https://de.globopoll.com/de/blog/block-vpn-votes)
- [fr](https://fr.globopoll.com/fr/blog/block-vpn-votes)
- [it](https://it.globopoll.com/it/blog/block-vpn-votes)
- [pt](https://pt.globopoll.com/pt/blog/block-vpn-votes)

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Source: https://www.globopoll.com/en/blog/block-vpn-votes