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[-] mere 2 points 6 days ago

I'm an idiot, the image was broken so I opened it in a new tab and was extremely confused as to why I was being 'blocked' even with a vpn active

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 1 month ago

I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 45 points 1 month ago

Then Brits can use TOR 😎

If they block the publicly-accessible nodes too, they can use bridges.

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago

Hell yeah.

It's very hard to block TOR, because it's an hydra. Block one method, multiple other methods take its place.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 4 weeks ago

Bonus prize if it makes sites accept Tor users as legitimate.

[-] NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

I use TOR because over on Reddit I got unjustly permabanned. It works great! I rarely use reddit but there just happens to be one community that has some helpful information that I'll likely need to follow for the next few months. So TOR has been great for that!

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Reddit is bad

It had potential, but it has gone to waste.

[-] NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

I the mistake of telling asking a mod not to be condescending.

[-] nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Reddit has done things in it's lifespan, and is dying of financeer-cancer, like about half egregors and autonomous zones that come and go. The smaller ones usually die of generational trauma.

It all goes to compost and echos though, not all to the void.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 40 points 4 weeks ago

Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

They wouldn't block the protocol, just the most common commercial providers. That's very easily doable.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 22 points 1 month ago

Many have tried that, IMO getting the word out about VPNs even to non-technical users is important because most people still don't know what that is. If they ever try to ban VPNs, even non-technical people will know how to use them and how to avoid the bans.

[-] LilB0kChoy@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

That’d quickly become a game of whac-a-mole.

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