> ⌘+F, "vote", Not found Seems the author forgot one step.
The law was drafted by the government of one party, enacted by the government of the other party.
And backed by popular support.
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
#22Could this be built into open source routers? If you wanted to get fancy you could even select the best VPN for the particular service.
You can run the shadowsocks client on some routers and pass selected traffic via your external shadowsocks server.
I haven't needed to do this since I move to the US, but IIRC the rules were based on IP subnets.
The approach in TFA is more sophisticated and fine-grained.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#23"Is this overkill for viewing the occasional Imgur image? Probably." From the last couple of weeks of researching some stuff, it makes perfect sense - I keep stumbling across blogs and documentation that uses Imgur, and it's really quite annoying that I can't see the screenshot or image that is being referenced. It hasn't /quite/ hit the point to put something in place, but this is super helpful for the final straw -…
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur.
This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in the UK and we use 'mobile broadband' for our domestic Internet connection. So a mains powered router box that connects to the local G4 (or G5) mobile data network and provides wifi and a few cat 5 sockets. We don't need to subscribe to a phone line (e.g. last mile supplied by Openreach/BT or fibre from Virgin or whoever). I pay a single flat fee monthly by credit card. It is reasonably fast and meets our modes…
> archive.org is blocked (along with other nsfw type sites), but as the last post in your link to an earlier discussion says, I could get it unblocked by filling in a declaration that I'm over 18. Paying by credit card isn't enough to unblock automatically for this particular package That's something to do with your provider. Maybe you need a non-crappy provider. You do not need to provide any kind of declaration tha…
See comment from another UK resident further down.
I suspect it depends on the contract you have, and quite possibly when the contract started.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#25> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy.
This is what routers are for. My router (a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux) is the only thing on my network that knows there's a VPN. I can selectively route whatever I want through it, including having a separate SSID/VLAN from which everything is routed through the VPN. It's wireguard based so there's no "installing a VPN", just an interface/network configured in systemd-networkd (once, on the router).
Edit: Routing by domain name could be tricky, though. I haven't had a need for that, and a proxy with local DNS override (as in the article) might needed if it came to that. I'd still do it on the router, though.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#26a-ha, if you happen to have a Unifi router then a simpler setup would be to do policy based routing by hostnames through a vpn client maintained in the router config
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#27Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#28This is quite easy with OpenWRT.
Install the Wireguard packages, create a connection to your VPN of choice in a nearby country (I chose Sweden). Then I used the "vpn-policy-routing" package to route Imgur IPs (199.232.196.193 199.232.192.193) through the VPN.
Works for websites that keep nagging you for age verification too.
But seriously, it's been more emotional than I'd expected to get my cat memes back.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
The law was drafted by the government of one party, enacted by the government of the other party.
And backed by popular support.
It’s another good example of internet sentiment being far different to popular sentiment.
Polling shows around 70% supported it, though far fewer thought it would be effective. Pretty much matches my views on it.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#30Why not call it split tunneling, which is what it is.