As a remark, not a criticism, such a deliberate promotion is probably illegal in the UK market, > "But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce "highly effective" methods to check user age must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o
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> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Hey @nextdns team. I'm a long time customer of NextDNS. I've been using your service for a few years now, but it seems a large amount of your primarily offered services & blocklist offerings are SEVERLY out of date. I detailed that here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextdns/s/IX2mUogHPK Your input on this thread would be greatly appreciated, as the community wants NextDNS to be the best service it can be. I do…
I'm really surprised to see this pop up considering how the NextDNS team seems to have disappeared otherwise. Out of date offerings like you mentioned, coupled with 0 customer support when things break (and things break a lot). New features like this are fine only if the base service works. I can guess that this feature also is going to break soon, and I don't have high hopes for it getting fixed. I moved over to Con…
I went to see ControlD's website to see if it was any good but the chat thingy was trying to convince me by saying "protect your connection like the Coliseum protected Rome, try ControlD's free DNS", which I guess is a way of trying something funny since I'm connecting from Italy, but it does not inspire much confidence in their protection abilities
It may not be effective in the long term, but I think it's very much worth doing. The privacy nightmare of uploading government docs is appalling and should be resisted by all who can, so I think you're doing great work. If it provokes regulators to push harder, they might just get enough attention from voters to motivate a change. That would be my hope anyway
Even if this was a good idea, ID verification technology should not be outsourced to private parties. This is a service governments themselves must provide. I shouldn't need to upload an ID because the government already has it! If they simply wanted age verification, the dumb and lazy way is to SSO through a government managed portal with OAUTH2 and you only share your age with the third party. You do a one time acc…
> the dumb and lazy way is to SSO through a government managed portal with OAUTH2
The weird thing is that UKGOV already has this for the NHS - my GP's app uses access.login.nhs.uk to log me in. That could easily verify my age to another system.
(Admittedly it's not sufficient for the wider case because not everyone is registered on nhs.uk but it does show that UKGOV has the capability to do this.)
It may not be effective in the long term, but I think it's very much worth doing. The privacy nightmare of uploading government docs is appalling and should be resisted by all who can, so I think you're doing great work. If it provokes regulators to push harder, they might just get enough attention from voters to motivate a change. That would be my hope anyway
It may not be effective in the long term, but I think it's very much worth doing. The privacy nightmare of uploading government docs is appalling and should be resisted by all who can, so I think you're doing great work. If it provokes regulators to push harder, they might just get enough attention from voters to motivate a change. That would be my hope anyway
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Absence of parenting is a bigger threat than privacy. I accidentally agree with you, even if you're wrong.
A DNS provider can not route your traffic through TCP proxies, so it must be the former.
Sure they can. When your browser resolves a host, they replace the actual IP with the IP of a proxy that is configured to forward traffic according to the Host HTTP header.
You would have to install a certificate for that to work.
You need to introduce an invasive great firewall before you can effectively ban VPNs, since there's so many different ways to hide traffic. Unlike banning porn, banning VPNs has no political value because the technically inept voters who support these age verification policies don't know what a VPN is.
> You need to introduce an invasive great firewall before you can effectively ban VPNs If you're China, yes. If you're a large and powerful western country, not so much. The way to do it would be through the concept of "data laundering." Just like the US does with money laundering, the government would publish a list of all organizations and individuals engaged in the practice. All companies operating in that country…
UK prisons are almost full. The last thing the government needs is to jail every 14 year old who sets up wireguard for his friends.
It may not be effective in the long term, but I think it's very much worth doing. The privacy nightmare of uploading government docs is appalling and should be resisted by all who can, so I think you're doing great work. If it provokes regulators to push harder, they might just get enough attention from voters to motivate a change. That would be my hope anyway
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Imposing a policy on the whole internet in order to make it safer for children is like imposing a national 4mph speed limit on cars in order to make it safe for children to walk to school.
(personally I think there's a lot of non-sexual material which is bad for children but not covered by age verification, like Andrew Tate, but that's impossible to define or enforce)
Absence of parenting is a bigger threat than privacy. I accidentally agree with you, even if you're wrong.
Parents don't follow their child 24/7. Society has a responsibility too. There is also the possibility of minors not knowing what they are clicking or kids with shitty parents destroying your hard work.
It may not be effective in the long term, but I think it's very much worth doing. The privacy nightmare of uploading government docs is appalling and should be resisted by all who can, so I think you're doing great work. If it provokes regulators to push harder, they might just get enough attention from voters to motivate a change. That would be my hope anyway
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Oh no, maybe I should just be uhhh a responsible parent and not give my kids unlimited access to a browser instead of imposing a privacy nightmare on everyone else :)