Your MAC address is stripped at the first hop, so changing it does nothing. "Public" IPs, like those from a Starbucks, are also viewed poorly by anti-fraud syst

Your MAC address is stripped at the first hop, so changing it does nothing. "Public" IPs, like those from a Starbucks, are also viewed poorly by anti-fraud systems. VPN users get "punished" because of abuse from other VPN users. It's that simple.