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Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

#161

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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. Another non-parent with an irrelevant opinion.

Nice assumption! Unfortunately, your mind reading skills aren't the most perspicacious. I actually have five kids. How many do you have? And how old?

Turns out that just being a minor doesn't make you technologically incapable. My 16 year old learned how to use VPNs and torrents when he was 12. Unless you're prepared to force everyone on the planet to use government or big tech controlled everything and ban terrifying technologies like open source, it's not going to be hard for them to work around them. Maybe we should have government cameras in all of our homes with AI constantly observing, transcribing, and recording everything we do or say. We could even hook up an MCP server to law enforcement so the cops can be sent ASAP upon any violations. A robo-car could show up within minutes and the cameras could announce that you must get in. We could start with forced re-education, and escalate to imprisonment on multiple offenses or if the severity of the violation exceeds some threshold. Might make sense to just have all the kids taken from home at birth and raised in a safe government run rearing house. Then we could make sure they're getting well educated in the manner that our rulers at the time desire. Trump would make a great father figure and example right? No? Why don't you want to protect the children? Is there anything not worth doing to protect the children? Won't somebody please think of the children?

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

#162

How can this work? What is "DNS tricks"? DNS is just telling you where the site is? edit: ah it spoofs the EDNS subnet for the DNS request, so it gives you server "intended" for a different location. You will get slower connection but if it's poorly implemented and they have geofencing just on that layer, it will not do the age verification stuff. It's interesting that it works, but... the website can still tell your…

Thanks for answering the one thing I wanted to know about this. It wasn't at all obvious to me how this might be possible using DNS only.

I guess it will work for some sites, but it would be interesting to know what fraction.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

#163
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Considering this is a post from NextDNS themselves, showing off a NEW and awesome feature.... It doesn't seem abandoned? You don't seem to have even looked at the description lol

https://help.nextdns.io/search?v=p&q=refund Congratulations to them, I suppose. They've temporarily returned after stealing money from me. Their service stopped working after renewing my annual subscription and when I went to try and find support, I got silence. If you're one of the lucky few who's never had issues with NextDNS, I'm happy for you.

I looked at this search and for the record, there are records from years ago, and nothing recently. Out of 58 posts, only 5 of them (approx) seem to be from the last year. I see random comments on some threads "asking" for a refund, but this isn't like a support ticket system, as far as I can see? I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but I'm not sure that this link is indicative of anything.

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#164

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From the UK you get "Explore your rules like a London detective" which barely makes sense, and is an immediately makes me think it will be useless.

US version: “Unlock the full potential of your network with Control D's advanced filtering and security features, perfect for the land of the free.”

I don't even have to say my country, thanks AI:

"Explore your network's potential with Control D's advanced DNS analytics, perfect for a tech-savvy Canadian like you."

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

#165

That’s a bold move. Handing over IDs to random sites is definitely a privacy nightmare, so I get why you built this. The real question is whether it buys time for users or just accelerates the push for stricter regulation. Either way, it sparks an important conversation

The UK age verification seems to be "Upload your ID to a porn site", but that's not the EU solution from what I can tell. What the EU is building is an Identity Wallet, where your national online ID verifies your age with your wallet. The wallet can then tell the sites that yes, this person is in fact 16+ or whatever the age restriction is. How they plan to avoid having kids just borrow their parents phones I don't k…

> How they plan to avoid having kids just borrow their parents phones

I think one can say that about alcohol too? How do they plan to avoid kids drinking the wine?

Maybe if the parents leaves knifes, wine and medicine and an unlocked mobile phone where the kids can find it, ... That's a problem that's hard to solve in a phone app?

> frequent reconfirmation maybe?

Maybe popping up face ID camera tests? Can be annoying, I suppose, if you were in the middle of something

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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.

Good point. I was thinking of an HTTP proxy, but surely a TCP proxy would work.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

#169
Interesting discussion here. One thing I’d add is that beyond using VPNs or private browsing modes, tools like antidetect browsers can help a lot when managing multiple identities or accounts online. They provide separate digital fingerprints and reduce the risk of bans or tracking. For example, Multilogin (https://multilogin.com/antidetect/mobile-antidetect-browser/)explains how this works in practice.
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