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Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

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Post by palakchokshi »

austerity wrote: post #5
rikkus wrote: post #4

I clicked in the text box to enter a URL and my cursor appeared in the middle of the example URL. Pressing left... nothing, right... nothing, delete... nothing. Typing some more text - the example URL disappeared and I could enter one from scratch! Does this just happen from the UK? ;)

On it, thanks for the input :) Edit: fixed

still seeing this behavior. Text should disappear as soon as textbox gets focus.

Also I tried a URL from GB and from India and got the generic error message. What does that mean? Is the URL not accessible from those countries?

Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

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Post by ForHackernews »

p4bl0 wrote: post #17
dewey wrote: post #10

Neat, works great to unblock Youtube videos if you are living in a country where 90% of the music videos are blocked (Germany) and it's rather fast too. Thanks for sharing.

Unblocking YouTube videos is the first thing I tried. It works but it is very slow, so I still prefer to use Tor for that (I can usually download between 500 and 700 kbps using torsock + youtube-dl).

Ugh, that's really kind of abusive of the Tor network. There's very limited bandwidth, and it would be more polite for you to not use it just to watch Youtube clips.

There are all sorts of inexpensive VPN services you can use (e.g. https://www.witopia.net/) to circumvent region blocks. Tor should only be used in situations where strict anonymity is crucial.

Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

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Post by dewey »

ForHackernews wrote: post #54
p4bl0 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unblocking YouTube videos is the first thing I tried. It works but it is very slow, so I still prefer to use Tor for that (I can usually download between 500 and 700 kbps using torsock + youtube-dl).

Ugh, that's really kind of abusive of the Tor network. There's very limited bandwidth, and it would be more polite for you to not use it just to watch Youtube clips. There are all sorts of inexpensive VPN services you can use (e.g. https://www.witopia.net/ ) to circumvent region blocks. Tor should only be used in situations where strict anonymity is crucial.

> Tor should only be used in situations where strict anonymity is crucial.

If Tor would only be used in situations like this it wouldn't be that anonymous. Maybe it shouldn't be used for Youtube streaming or torrenting but using it for regular internet browsing is a good idea to keep the usage of Tor as diverse as possible, creating a bigger crowd to obfuscate the people who really need Tor for a crucial task.

Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

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Post by p4bl0 »

ForHackernews wrote: post #54
p4bl0 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unblocking YouTube videos is the first thing I tried. It works but it is very slow, so I still prefer to use Tor for that (I can usually download between 500 and 700 kbps using torsock + youtube-dl).

Ugh, that's really kind of abusive of the Tor network. There's very limited bandwidth, and it would be more polite for you to not use it just to watch Youtube clips. There are all sorts of inexpensive VPN services you can use (e.g. https://www.witopia.net/ ) to circumvent region blocks. Tor should only be used in situations where strict anonymity is crucial.

Just to reassure you, I very rarely do that (and I don't use Tor just for this purpose). If it was something that I did regularly, I would of course pay for a VPN or even a small VPS somewhere where videos blocked in France are most often not.

FYI, I have two computers running Tor nodes with a close to 100% uptime, and I regularly give to an association running big Tor exit nodes :-).

Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

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Post by gtirloni »

austerity wrote: post #42
gtirloni wrote: post #29

For the rest of the countries we rely on publicly availably proxy servers (marked non-truested). Which organization is running publicly available proxies servers wittingly? Answer: none. I wouldn't base an application on exploiting mis-configured proxies around the globe.

Yes, this is openly addressed in "How it works".

Not enough. Some countries are lifting new laws saying any kind of unauthorized access is already a crime. This website is fooling users into committing a crime by using resources that were not explicitly made available to them and taking advantaged of poorly configured proxies.

Re: Show HN: Teleport – see what the web looks like from elsewhere in the world

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Post by ForHackernews »

p4bl0 wrote: post #56
ForHackernews wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh, that's really kind of abusive of the Tor network. There's very limited bandwidth, and it would be more polite for you to not use it just to watch Youtube clips. There are all sorts of inexpensive VPN services you can use (e.g. https://www.witopia.net/ ) to circumvent region blocks. Tor should only be used in situations where strict anonymity is crucial.

Just to reassure you, I very rarely do that (and I don't use Tor just for this purpose). If it was something that I did regularly, I would of course pay for a VPN or even a small VPS somewhere where videos blocked in France are most often not. FYI, I have two computers running Tor nodes with a close to 100% uptime, and I regularly give to an association running big Tor exit nodes :-).

Fair enough, sorry if that came off harsh. If you're actually contributing to running exit nodes, then you're more justified in using Tor to watch videos.
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