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I thoroughly hate that their website blocks my VPN servers
This is most likely not deliberate, but they might've gotten DOS attack attempts from your ip range which made them block it?
May I ask why you use VPN to visit their site in the first place?
I don't know about OP but when I use a VPN, it's on all the time, not selectively enabled because I'm going to a particular website.