in the part of the world I'm living it's mandatory to use VPN due to certain circumstances. eg because lot of communication is in general blocked and several games or tools like discord, teamspeak etc are not working without. unfortunately since a few days steam community incl. workshop etc get blocked when using encrypted connection, without I face other issues and risk personal punishments. Any option to come back to normal and unblock a regular security feature.
I'm aware that it's a violation of steam SLAs to use VPN to fake geo locking for store advantages or vat benefits, which is not the case and have the official IDs or other documents to prove.
Would be great if you can do the needful to come back to normal.