It should be noted, that for some of the providers, the OpenVPN configs they provide and their clients actually do different things. The ones I've dug into do

It should be noted, that for some of the providers, the OpenVPN configs they provide and their clients actually do different things. The ones I've dug into do seem to all setup VPN networks with their clients, but some of them do something extra to special case some major media services. You'll see little oddities, like the webpage for disneyplus.com being routed through some special IP, no doubt to work around a block, which the content CDN requests are left to load through the normal VPN connection. The OpenVPN config file does none of this. On top of this, how they get these IPs that are unblocked, is ... questionable. https://web.archive.org/web/20200716220700/https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-6c51045dbc30 https://web.archive.org/web/20200716220700/https://medium.co... has more details on one case. There are others.