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Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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

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Post by rany_ »

shitloadofbooks wrote: post #62
rany_ wrote: post #56

How does this "DNS trick" work? That to me is a much more interesting detail.

It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking, or routes the traffic through TCP proxies so your traffic appears to come from a different country without these laws. This will increase the latency of all traffic to that site though.

I tried out NextDNS and this feature doesn't seem to work anyway. Enabling "Bypass Age Verification" has no effect. I tested it out on PornHub and XVideos.

I also can't find anything different in the returned A/AAAA records compared to my standard resolver.

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

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Post by munksbeer »

phatfish wrote: post #124
freedomben wrote: post #6

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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I hope you understand that every single work-around you see popping up is a result of your support of censorship and verification policy. *Your* support is going to push children onto more dangerous sites and expose their private browsing data to honeypots as they seek ways around this.

If my children were older, I would immediately be educating them on the dangers of this policy and of the dangers of seeking ways around it.

I confess, as I type this, I have a lot of anger at the dangers you're putting children into.

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

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Post by corobo »

phatfish wrote: post #124
freedomben wrote: post #6

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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Would be easier for everyone else if you parented your child in addition to raising them

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

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Post by ltbarcly3 »

HappMacDonald wrote: post #91
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had to upload my ID card to send money, open a bank account online, verify my identity for a dating app, book an international flight, and ironically to register for the app to have an electronic version of my id on my phone, and weirdly to pay a traffic ticket (why do they care who pays it?), get a discount on my Amazon Prime subscription, and finally to reset my password for my ID.me login for government websi…

So think through what you've just said. If you were able to do all of those things to prove your identity using your ID.. then any identity thief with a copy of your ID could use it to impersonate you in every one of those venues. That means that somebody else can send your money wherever they wish.. create bank accounts to perform nefarious deeds that tie back to you.. book flights, and subscribe to services on your…

Yea, I guess you thought through the fundamentals of security better than banks, payment providers, and governments. Well done.

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

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Post by cgriswald »

bluehatbrit wrote: post #139
tecleandor wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine (Spain) said "control your DNS like a flamenco singer" and it doesn't make sense at all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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.”

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

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Post by dmd »

agos wrote: post #122
huhkerrf wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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’s clearly AI generated, and badly.

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

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

bunnyfoofoo wrote: post #118
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just email billing@nextdns.io

They do not respond, to any email address. Tried multiple times, over months. Just check the forums. I provided a link in my other reply.

Your emails might be hitting their spam, this happens with my companies support address too so sometimes it will prevent a ticket from even being created

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

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Post by lionkor »

atonse wrote: post #73

I use NextDNS to BLOCK porn sites, etc from my kids’ devices. I hope you aren’t changing your ethos as a company, although I don’t know, maybe your customers are changing and causing you to pivot. Because I don’t want any chance of this stuff affecting the blocks we use for minors, etc.

Age verification doesn't protect minors, so I doubt their ethos changed.

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

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Post by kaboomshebang »

On-topic: Seems like a good feature.

Off-topic: I've been reading some of the comments and I notice a bunch of HN-members are unhappy about their product. My experience: things never broke for me, never needed to contact support, ads are blocked, etc (But I also use uBlock, etc)

(P.s. - My only complaint is that -- like so many other SaaS offerings -- administrating payments is not easy enough. - No option to pay by year - So every month you have to go the website, login, go the admin, click download invoice - Instead of: click download PDF from monthly invoice email)

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