Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

Post by KomoD » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 3:28 PM UTC

ohbtvz wrote: post #64

mattcurious wrote: post #58

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I’ve seen this on IP lookups I’ve done when roaming - surely this is a bad idea for latency? What’s the motivation? Why would they cripple performance further by proxying to an endpoint that could be half away around the world.

This is especially infuriating as a European visiting the US, where a bunch of services are geo-fenced to American IPs. In several towns, I couldn't pay for parking or buy a bus ticket because the online service is geo-fenced and there's no brick-and-mortar alternative anymore. They also restrict apps in the play store or whatever to US accounts. I had to buy a cheap SIM card to get around all that. It's insane.

Post by dncornholio » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

lost_tourist wrote: post #91

dncornholio wrote: post #52

Why is nobody giving slack to the horrible UK laws but instead go on how bad ThreeUK is. This is a prime example why traffic filtering breaks the internet and causes unfair advantage.

because it isn't happening on other providers evidently.

Post by robertlagrant » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 3:55 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #15

Raed667 wrote: post #6

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It is not the job of an ISP to decide what is fraudulent and what is not. They should be a dumb pipe between services and people.

That is not really true, ISPs are relied on by non-technical customers who have neither the personal chops nor a 24/7 technical assistant to help them. Whether ISPs succeed in any way is an entirely different ballgame, but this is absolutely the job of the ISP, especially in their role of email provider. Its ability to properly discriminate and aggressively block or plonk messages isvery much one of the reasons peopl…

Post by avmich » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #141

tomxor wrote: post #96

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> A VPN is essential to defend yourself from the jackbooted UK government. I tend to agree. Unfortunately even VPN doesn't entirely solve it though. On the one hand wiregaurd makes this feel far more transparent and comfortable technically compared to how it used to with old fashioned crappy TCP over TCP style VPN... instead we now get low overhead, low latency, native, simple configuration etc. The only problem is t…

>it's like wtf leave it alone guys, we are not in north Korea we will eventually get everything they have in NK/China/Russia/Iran, under a thin veneer of being done for our own good and accompanied by a mass media campaign that will convince a sizeable population of useful idiots to accept it all. the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do

Post by throwaway0x7E6 » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

avmich wrote: post #157

throwaway0x7E6 wrote: post #141

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>it's like wtf leave it alone guys, we are not in north Korea we will eventually get everything they have in NK/China/Russia/Iran, under a thin veneer of being done for our own good and accompanied by a mass media campaign that will convince a sizeable population of useful idiots to accept it all. the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do

> the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do Who specifically hate and fear dissent in western democracies, and what's the mechanism against that?