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Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

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That's not how the UK works. We invented the nanny state.

And the nanny fetish, although that seems to be rather particular to a certain class of people in the UK. That said, full credit on the nanny dog, Staffordshire bull terriers are amazing with children.

They’re certainly good at silencing children permanently.

Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

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The same privacy preserving features of Tutanota enjoyed by privacy conscious individuals, make it ideal for fraudsters. We experience a large number of fraudulent ecommerce orders using Tutanota email domains. I'm not shocked to think that this could be an example of an algorithm gone awry based on the signals it received.

I’m sure there are the same or more number of fraudulent cases coming from gmail accounts but they don’t block that one

Consider when you’re tempted to ‘what about’ an issue that there’s an important distinction you’ve missed rather than see it as evidence of some grand injustice - in this case that GMail processes orders of magnitudes more email than Tutanova.

Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

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Three also have a transparent HTTP proxy, which breaks apt updates, so you have to manually replace http with https in your apt sources.list.

How are they breaking apt? Aren’t signatures checked only on the package itself?

You randomly get 4xx or 5xx response codes (can't remember which one)

Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

#57

Once again I will say that ThreeUK is the worst UK network. I switched to EE and it’s been a breeze. Giffgaff was also good when I used it.

Giffgaff is rubbish where I am. They throttle down massively during the day, 3Mbit if lucky, even forcing LTE. Found Voxi (Vodafone) to be miles better, at least for my location (which is close to the mast)

Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

#58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, do the UK content blocks apply to people roaming with a foreign sim? I'm also on three ie, just haven't been to the UK in ages.

Generally no. Roaming data sessions are tunnelled back to the host provider.

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.

Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

#59

Slightly off topic, but I was with Three UK for a while. Reception was universally terrible, and trying to use mobile data was a joke. This was in a small urban centre... called London. Would never, ever touch them again. Back on topic, it seems that they are not using Bluecoat/Symantec Site review (which I suspect other providers do), which has the domain categorised correctly: https://sitereview.bluecoat.com/#/look…

I had no reception and no data through most of my commute. What pushed me to switch operator was when I realised my phone was showing it has reception, but nobody could call me still. So when I missed doctor's appointment I really needed - literally sitting by my phone and waiting for a call for a couple of hours. When my window passed I called the surgery and was told that doctor called me several times, but was not getting through. The reason I didn't switch earlier is that I needed to keep my number and I was worried that when switching operators something will go wrong as my luck would have it. Fortunately I switched it without problem and I wish I dropped Three the first day there was a problem. I don't know how they are allowed to operate.

Re: Threeuk is blocking Tutanota

#60

Interestingly, ThreeIE doesn't block them. And I'm fairly happy with them (>1Gbit/s on 5G still blows my mind), except for when I'm travelling to London and have to roam on 3 UK (I agree it sucks)

I use their 5G as home broadband in Edinburgh. Their service is better than Vodafone’s where I am.
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