I recently noticed the yellow/orange warning that is displayed on listings that were created over a VPN connection. It's a good thing, but I never knew this was a thing until I saw it on someone elses listing, and found out that this was also the case for my own listings, as I generally use a VPN to hide my traffic from my ISP. This in turn made me realize that this warning may have been the very reason for my modules barely selling lately despite listing them at very generous prices, prices that I genuinely feel are too low, but would leave me without any sales if I didn't list them as low as I have.

Would it be possible to have a message pop up when we are about to list a module for sale and MG detects that we're connected via a VPN network? I absolutely don't mind exposing my real IP to MG if that means I can have the warning disappear from my ads, but as is stands right now it feels more like a flag that a user is a potential scammer while this much more often than not, is not the case. It kind of invalidates my 30+ positive ratings because it genuinely looks like my account in specific got flagged for suspicious activity to anyone unfamiliar with the system.

Another solution could be to offer profile verification to users in order to obtain a verified status/checkmark, this would then also eliminate the VPN warning from their listings. This can most likely already be done by verifying the details of anyone with a Unicorn account, as payments are generally well-backed by identity verification on the payment platform's end.

tldr: VPN warning is a good thing in concept but could use some work in practise.