Even Russia and Iran has issues blocking VPN country wide…curious what SoundCloud is going to be able to do. I’m guessing it’s to block AI scrapers but ironically, they have way more resources than your customers. SoundCloud will end up pissing off their paying customers and AI bots will still be able to scrape.
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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?
Your friends don't find it uneasy that you can be tunneling illegal activities through their internet connection and have the FBI knocking at their door in a few months?
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#23Doesn't reddit block VPNs as well?
i tunnel my internet through linode with wireguard - reddit blocks me if i'm not signed in.
with soundcloud, i just got a generic 403 from cloudfront
combine that with country-level internet filter, the internet is getting harder and harder to use :(
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#24Financial times does as well for me on certain browsers but not others. Pretty annoying.
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#25Doesn't reddit block VPNs as well?
Works for me most of the time. A couple of months ago, there was a period where a subset of the exit IPs were blocked for a short period each.
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#26Last night I was blocked from HBOMAX (or whatever brand they go by these days) for being on a VPN. That was the first time I've ever encountered something like that on HBOMAX. I wonder if there is some coordinating event here.
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#27You can't just blanket block all VPN access, that's not how the internet works... they could pick some common/well-known providers of VPN services and block their IPs/ASN/etc., but you can't just flip a switch and make all forms of VPN/proxy stop working, as there's no way to tell with certainty that someone is using one.
MTU detection is the easiest one. Sucks for people with ISPs that don't do 1500 bytes but those are rare.
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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?
Your friends don't find it uneasy that you can be tunneling illegal activities through their internet connection and have the FBI knocking at their door in a few months?
This word you used... friend... what does it mean to you?
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#29Yarr… when this happens to ye, it’s time to sail the high seas!
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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?
Obviously not everyone have friends in all of the countries they want to tunnel to (or want to ask them). Otherwise these VPN services wouldn't exist.