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⏰ Apr 07, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Some users may experience issues accessing the ChatGPT website on VPN

// Status page says

Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components GPTs (Partial outage) Deep Research (Partial outage) Login (Partial outage) Voice mode (Partial outage) Search (Partial outage) Agent (Partial outage) Connectors/Apps (Partial outage) ChatGPT Atlas (Partial outage) File uploads (Partial outage) Conversatio

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KNKQQ4R06K00RDTNXZVX7SFC

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