in summary: wasn't using a vpn, is now using a vpn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
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Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
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The only downside is this doesn’t work if you have IPv6 enabled as UniFi Network still allows those to bypass the VPN. I ended up making a long list of firewall rules to block specific sites IPv6 ranges, which worked until I hit cloudflare backed sites. I’m really hoping UniFi start supporting IPv6 WireGuard soon.
Wow, this is unbelievable. I thought UniFi was a premier networking product. Certainly its price would suggest so. Not supporting IPv6 in 2025 is unacceptable.
To be clear, the rest of the OS supports IPv6, just the WireGuard VPN doesn’t. Disappointing all the same.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
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Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#134That's a lot of steps for something that would be a simple route rule or mangle + mark routing on mikrotik. The route rule would route out a VPN instead of the main route. If the domain name resolves to many IPs you can keep an address list up to date using a simple script.
With proper configuration Mikrotik can do preety much everything network related. Awesome product and os.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#135> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop?
Also, Imgur blocks many VPN IPs. I use Mullvad and I have not yet found a single Mullvad IP that can access Imgur.
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#136Imgur is one of the more annoying UK geoblocks because they persist it with cookies, so if you want to view something you can’t just switch to VPN for a second without also changing browser sessions. Reddit is worse… you can’t even view someone’s profile if they’ve ever submitted a post labeled NSFW.
In other words, we're entering a dark age for the internet.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#137> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Also, Imgur blocks many VPN IPs. I use Mullvad and I have not yet found a single Mullvad IP that can access Imgur.
I’m also on Mullvad, keep trying. It took me like 20 servers but I did find one.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
That'd be "split tunnel/VPN" by domain name, and usually it's limited to HTTP/S requests (because the hostname comes with the petition header), but some vendors (like ZScaler) do tricks to apply it to different protocols. For example, the equivalent in Tailscale would be an "App Connector": https://tailscale.com/kb/1342/app-connectors-setup#add-a-cus...
This is all new to me, but seems odd (startup idea?) why there isn't a SaaS letting me accomplish this on iPhone in a few minutes. (a few youtube searches for 'how to split VPN' are hopelessly theoretical as opposed to practical) E.g. I'd definitely pay $10/month for an app that lets me input domains and which country to re-route traffic through. E.g. a handful of social media apps via US (my country has age verifica…
This also seems like an easy way for VPN providers to differentiate themselves with their apps. The fact that it hasn’t happened makes me think that it’s impossible with unrooted iOS
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Seeing as the investigation was by the ICO instead of OFCOM, yes, very much so. Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
That makes no difference. "Data protection" or not, it was pressure for age verification.
Can you please provide a source for your claim?
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#140Imgur is one of the more annoying UK geoblocks because they persist it with cookies, so if you want to view something you can’t just switch to VPN for a second without also changing browser sessions. Reddit is worse… you can’t even view someone’s profile if they’ve ever submitted a post labeled NSFW.
In other words, we're entering a dark age for the internet.
Maybe, maybe not. It'll be signficiantly harder for the EU to target decentralised services with no organisation behind them. It'll be far easier for them to put every major tech site which accepts VPN traffic into the box of organisations they can still fine. I'm not entirely sure the wider population will really care all that much once the dust settles. The internet works in China, and people are happy with it, and while we can agree that is probably what you'd call th dark age, you'll need significantly public opposition to do anything about it. I think we'll sadly see most major tech sites adopt whatever age verification tool the EU builds. They did with all the various form of payment system though this was obviously helped along with the API provided by companies like visa.
Honestly you could probably even use the 0 cost back charge that visa has, which is used by some finance services to verify that you are who you say you are through the visa connection to your national digital identity.