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Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by jijijijij »

voltagexd wrote: post #74
xfeeefeee wrote: post #2

Over five years of paid SoundCloud here, I thought something was wrong with my setup. If this continues I'll have to cancel, basically. What a pain.

same here. been a paying customer for 2 years, a soundcloud listener for 5+. this is where i switch back to downloading music off russian pirate websites.

> this is where i switch back to downloading music off russian pirate websites.

As a bonus you may even get discount codes for your VPN!

For real tho, fuck all those rent-seeking control freaks. Piracy was almost dead, we had a good deal. But no, it's never enough, so here we are.

Also, some piracy boards are actually pretty steady, nice and cool communities, and listing to local files feels way more intentional.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by cedws »

yeasku wrote: post #139
cedws wrote: post #66

I tried creating a SoundCloud account recently for uploading DJ sets to and it just outright wouldn't let me. Didn't matter whether I was or wasn't on a VPN, or whether I had clean cookies. Crappy bot detection. You can be sure I'm never paying for such a hostile service.

Uploadig dj sets with comercially released music to Soundcloud is not allowed.

Given that I have hundreds of SoundCloud DJ sets bookmarked that contain commercially released music that’s obviously not true.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by gruez »

alex-robbins wrote: post #56
gruez wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Across 3 VPN providers I use, none of them have issues accessing reddit anonymously. There are nodes/regions that are blocked, but finding a working server isn't hard.

Care to name them? I use Mullvad, and I love them, but their exit nodes are routinely blocked by Reddit and streaming services.

Of the largest providers[1], PIA and nordvpn work fine for me.

[1] https://ipinfo.io/tools/vpn-providers-detected

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by butlike »

webstrand wrote: post #131
butlike wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the nicest way possible: who cares? So "they" know my vile pornographic proclivities, my daily commute, and probably what color my poop was this morning. Then what? I get embarassed? Snowden showed the NSA has taps upstream, so in my book: that's over. I'm fairly convinced if your company reaches a size where it could potentially be a national security threat, the government comes knocking (Facebook, Apple, Twitte…

This only works so long as you're not interesting to anyone. You never know what past information associated with your identity will be weaponized against you. By the government, corporations, or individuals to justify harming you. Even if you're safe and secure in the belief that your neighbors will never turn on you, others are not so lucky. Did you travel to get an abortion? Someone might be interested in charging…

You make a couple of good points. The necessity to commit a felony in the name of healthcare as traveling to get an abortion is shameful. I can't believe it's come to that. Have people been rounded up into camps and exterminated for innate human qualities and beliefs? Yes. And it's disgusting I have to type that as well.

But beyond that I disagree with your sentiment.

These things need to be stopped as they come. Withholding data and living a life of fearful "what ifs" cannot preemptively stop atrocity. Of course I'll never know what past information can be used against me in the future; weaponized in ways I cannot fathom. It's a possibility. Hindsight is 20/20, but "you can't predict the future," so how would I know? I have to live my life. I gotta do SOMETHING.

The crux of all of those "what ifs" is beholden to if the person correlating that data has social agency to act upon it. If that's the case, anyone could be my next predator. Anyone could be the next Hitler waiting to exterminate me based on my non-citizen camaraderie or political leanings.

Data is just a predictor, it is not the truth. If my life provided a data point for a yet-to-be-born hostile dictator to perjure me, I will deal with that when it comes, but I can't live my life out of fear.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by Aurornis »

londons_explore wrote: post #134
taikahessu wrote: post #128

Ironically, I can't read the Reddit post with my VPN.

I'm pretty sure reddits reason for blocking VPN's is they want the AI scrapers to pay them for a data feed. They also block data center IP's

> I'm pretty sure reddits reason for blocking VPN's is they want the AI scrapers to pay them for a data feed.

Signing up for Reddit through a VPN has been difficult to impossible for a long time.

The amount of abuse that comes through VPN-sourced IP addresses is much higher than normal. It's common to block it on any social media site.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by agiacalone »

stewartbracken wrote: post #112
misnome wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They… do?

Private relay is an Apple VPN-like service that only covers iOS safari. That means the SoundCloud app or desktop usage will not receive any privacy benefits.

Just tested Soundcloud with a PWA using iOS Safari and Private Relay enabled. It works fine, albeit a few annoying popups asking to download the app.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by teeray »

jijijijij wrote: post #132
cowboy_henk wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Apple started routing all iPhone/Mac traffic through some anonymizing VPN by default, services that block it would absolutely lose lots of customers.

Yes, but Apple wouldn't do this, because Apple is also at risk of losing customers when people get blocked by network security at work. We could also fantasize about Apple fighting all the tracking everywhere, including their own services... Quite frankly, it's a bit silly to paint Apple as some privacy fortress, who wouldn't have to comply with law enforcement/intelligence to unmask/tap traffic. I mean, for a lot of…

> when people get blocked by network security at work

There were also plenty of corp-ware in existence that had Flash as *absolutely mandatory*.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by fragmede »

politelemon wrote: post #44
fragmede wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tailscale is really not that hard to set up. There's an Apple TV app for it, even. And who doesn't have some friend in another state or country that would like an Apple TV?

I am concerned that this comment reads like an advert, it's completely unnecessary and out of touch.

How is it out of touch? GP comment makes it sound like the technical know to setup a VPN exit node is this crazily esoteric super weird nerdy thing that no one would expect anyone normal to even know about. Installing an Apple TV app onto an Apple TV and mailing it to a friend requires zero command line usage.

But no, Tailscale did not pay me for this comment. I do happen to know someone that works there though.

Re: SoundCloud has banned VPN access

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Post by 0_____0 »

russelg wrote: post #72
bird0861 wrote: post #60

stares in Lidarr

Doesn't really fulfill the same niche Soundcloud does. Most content on SC is non-commercial or just simply not available on any streaming service. Lidarr relies on people ripping this music, and also adding the metadata to Musicbrainz, which just simply isn't going to happen for most SC uploads.

I thought for a moment while reading these comments that somehow SC had completely changed in terms of content and type of user. People seem to think it's a Spotify-like or something. I consumed essentially audio shitposts and DJ mix sets on SC, stuff that you're not going to find published in a pirateable form...
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