# ProxyTracer: VPN & Proxy Blocker

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/proxytracer-vpn-proxy-blocker/399958
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [April 4, 2026, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proxytracer-vpn-proxy-blocker/399958 "2026-04-04T19:56:00Z")
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### Author: ![ProxyTracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/proxytracer/32/549480_2.png) [@ProxyTracer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ProxyTracer)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/proxytracer-vpn-proxy-blocker/399958/23 "2026-09-04T01:53:00Z")

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We’re happy to release a new beta version that comes packed with some highly anticipated features:

- Administrators can now choose between outright blocking (block) or challenging suspicious connections with a CAPTCHA (captcha). Both Cloudflare Turnstile and hCaptcha are currently supported.
- Independent clearance tokens for visitor, login, signup, email\_login, and forgot\_password to ensure solving a challenge in one context does not grant blanket access to others.
- Interactive 30-day (can be extended) visual analytics powered by Chart.js displaying total checks vs. detected proxy/VPN traffic.
- Logs displaying the last 500 blocked attempts including timestamp, IP address, username (if enabled), and action.

To test this new beta release all you have to do is to change the line in your `containers/app.yml` from:

```plaintext
git clone https://github.com/proxytracer/discourse-proxytracer.git

```

to the following:

```plaintext
git clone -b beta-testing https://github.com/proxytracer/discourse-proxytracer.git

```

And after a `./launcher rebuild app` you should be set and ready.

We’d appreciate any feedback and suggestions on how to further improve the plugin.

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