@adisonverlice @mullvadnet @freifunk @monocles
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I think the same, and a #VPN has it's merits espechally when it comes to #Geoblocking and high-bandwith applications.
(And that's not even accounting for the intensity of traffic that it burdens the Network with!)
@thygrrr @PallasRiot I mean if you just want to circumvent #Geoblocking then yeah...
@hakan_geijer @PallasRiot The only "legitimate use case" for a commercial #VPN I know of is circumventing #Geoblocking...
That's why I explicitly recommended using #Tails, because that does have mitigations in place against that and @torproject / #TorBrowser does so too...
Here's a #security #tip for you...
If you host your own services (either at home or in the cloud) -- especially if you also use #CloudFlare -- one of the easiest, simples, fastest, and effective things you can do is to enable #GeoBlocking for your domain.
What is geoblocking? It's where you only allow traffic to your service from locations that need it.
I'm not talking about a self-hosted fedi instance. I'm talking about things like #NextCloud, #VaultWarden, self-hosted photo galleries, Plex servers, etc.
If you're in the UK, do you really want someone in Belarus or Myanmar being able to access your own private web service?
By enabling geo blocking for your domain you can restrict your services to only be accessible from those geographic regions that you authorize.
Say you're in the UK but you frequently vacation in Spain or Cyprus or Greece. Only enable traffic to your services from the UK, Spain, Cyprus, and Greece.
What you're doing is reducing your exposure to network-based threats and attacks.
Best of all it takes two seconds to setup.
It's not only Gilead cutting back on Soft Power and pulling back on putting ourselves out into the world...
@landley @pmevzek @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea And that is espechally baffling considering that #APNIC as #RIR ran out of #IPv4|s first.
Cuz people telling me "Oh, just use HEnet's Tunnelbroker"" never experienced the shitshow that is #Geoblocking and #GDPR-#Noncompliance with #Malvertising to slap their faces!
Question for the technical more affine!
Is there a safe and easy way around geoblocking on Youtube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1E2vjpcRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WfiRRvQXo
As with #IPv4 the problem is that there is no mandate to provide users with static prefixes and I'm stuck on a /28 of IPv4's and can't even get a singoe /64.
@jwildeboer I do #GeoBlocking on the login side of my server (submission, imap). Only login from an European country is allowed. This is possible, because I usually know the whereabouts of my users. If we travel outside Europe, I can temporarily allow that counrty. :-)
Do you do anything of that kind?
Europe thrives with a plurality of languages and cultures, generating jobs and global exports. The TV and film industry alone demonstrates the power of EU creative industries across languages.
www.advanced-television.com/2025/05/27/r... #geoblocking #mediaplurality #tv #film #publishing
Meta now training on EU user data:
"to understand the “diverse nuances and complexities that make up European communities,” referring to dialects and “hyper-local knowledge.”
#GeoBlocking #plurality #privacy https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/german-privacy-watchdog-scraps-plans-to-stop-meta-ai-training-on-personal-data/
@EUCommission My proposal for unlocking the potential of one particular 
creative industry (one we invented in Europe) is to smack Ruben Östlund and all politicians he's lobbied for #geoblocking over the head with the Consolidated version of The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union open at Article 101 until they stop blocking Europeans from learning about each other and entertaining each other with popculture.
AppleTV: “Do you want to use your account on this (vacation home) AppleTV? Sign in!”
Me: Sure, and install my previously installed Discovery+ app so I can watch Snooker!
AppleTV: “I’ll switch to the German App Store and install that app for you!“
Me: “Cool! Open it.”
Discovery+ App: “You’re in Denmark, Discovery+ is Max here. Please install the Max app.”
App Store Germany: “There is no Max app here.”
@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.
Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)
I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...
If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!
The regional government of Carinthia is blocking connections from anywhere except a few western-european countries on their main website.
https://geoblock.net/0a0d6e43-3579-4cc9-8ec9-9024dc00c735/
Don't be like Carinthia.
@shoppingtonz @alternativeto @torproject also every #Tunneling - regardless if #SSH or #VPN or whatever - will inevitably introduce #latency (unless you happen to be customer of a shitty #ISP with horrible #peering and thus can cut down on hops needed, which is AFAIK only a theoretical scenario)...
In fact I stopped using #HEnet #Tunnelbroker and #IPv6-#GIF-Tunneling because it created more issued than it solved on my #IPv4only #Internet connection…
Apple devices from China: Tough blockade by Apple Intelligence
Anyone who buys a Mac, iPhone & iPad in China cannot start Apple Intelligence on it, even with a suitable account. Apple apparently uses hard geoblocking.
Apple-Geräte aus China: Harte Blockade von Apple Intelligence
Wer Mac, iPhone & iPad in China kauft, kann darauf Apple Intelligence nicht starten, auch nicht mit passendem Account. Apple nutzt offenbar hartes Geoblocking.
@seyon @bossito Especialmente para a ficção, sim. Há um lobby intenso da indústria em todas as instituições da UE para bloquear qualquer tentativa de eliminar o #geoblocking.
Dropden.com offline: Freehoster mit technischem Fehler oder Abschaltung?
#Filesharing #Sharehoster #Blockierungen #filehoster #Geoblocking #nichterreichbar https://sc.tarnkappe.info/735a24
