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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

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Post by oskarkk »

echelon wrote: post #83
placatedmayhem wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a heads up that PC Engines is winding down. The chip they use in the APU2 is EOL, and they've decided to shut down altogether. https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm

Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself. > Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU. https://pcengines.ch/order.htm > EU - a single market ? > Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling s…

And in the end, 90% of people will throw it in the trash with everything else. I'm actually in the other 10%, but I live in the middle of a big city where I have electronic waste container like 300m away.

Btw, that's an awful website. I like simple minimalistic websites, but some people confuse "simple" with "give literally 0 fucks about the reader" and then I have 50-word long lines to read on my 32" monitor. Just put something like {max-width: 1200px; margin: 0 auto;} on the body at least.

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by denkmoon »

slig wrote: post #43
omnicognate wrote: post #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…

> a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux Do you remember the name of the product?

I like protectli boxes. x86, low power, coreboot options, lots of network interfaces. The apus everyone recommends (myself included) are no longer available :(

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by aruggirello »

echelon wrote: post #83
placatedmayhem wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a heads up that PC Engines is winding down. The chip they use in the APU2 is EOL, and they've decided to shut down altogether. https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm

Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself. > Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU. https://pcengines.ch/order.htm > EU - a single market ? > Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling s…

> Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU.

Switzerland is not part of the EU in this timeline... But their rant sounds very much like an excuse, the WEEE is in effect at least since 2021:

"All EU Member States are required to adopt the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive 2012/19/EU, which sets rules for the collection, treatment, and recycling of electronic waste. However, some countries were granted an extension until August 2021 to meet the collection targets due to infrastructure limitations, including Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, and Slovakia" - courtesy Google AI overview

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by notepad0x90 »

they block VPNs too, if yours is working it's just a matter of time until they get to it. Avoid using imgur entirely. What I find insidious is that unlike reddit and some other sites, they won't tell you it's blocked, they'll give you this:

{"data":{"error":"Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."},"success":false,"status":403}

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by tvshtr »

omnicognate wrote: post #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…

my solution to this is to have centralised VPN splitter (x-ray/singbox) sitting on RPi, with tailscale attached to it. This makes it available from anywhere if the device is on TS network. With added benefit of rule based geo splitting to various zones.

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by nomilk »

> 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.

Is there a way to install a VPN such that requests to/from certain domains (e.g. imgur.com) are routed via the VPN and the rest of your traffic is via non-VPN?

This would solve the problem of constantly having to dis/re connect VPN, and do it in an automatic fashion (i.e. without the manual steps of first recognising there's an unavailable asset on the page, opening VPN app, switching it on etc).

Such a configuration would also be very useful in other situations, e.g:

- using social media in countries that require age-verification

- using apps that geoblock (e.g. spotify blocks my subscription every few days because it detects a change in country, but what it's really detecting is simply whether or not my VPN happens to be on/off)

- accessing sites which are blocked (e.g. Thailand blocks common UK news sites which have said unflattering things about Thai royalty).

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by tvshtr »

apimade wrote: post #52
qwertox wrote: post #39

> First, I just upgraded to 2.5 Gbps internet and I don’t want to route all my traffic through a VPN and take the speed hit. I have this bandwidth for a reason You don't have to. You create a container which runs openvpn to connect to your vpn provider, and also hosts an ssh daemon. The ssh daemon receives incoming SOCKS5 connections from a firefox portable browser, which has been configured to use the proxy (your Do…

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro... You can default route domains through a VPN using a Firefox tab container, you don’t need a separate browser instance running!

You can use the official add-on for that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... On the surface the proxy option looks like it is only their own VPN service, but you can set up your own too.

Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network

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Post by blackqueeriroh »

nomilk wrote: post #98

> 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. Is there a way to install a VPN such that requests to/from certain domains (e.g. imgur.com) are routed via the VPN and the rest of your traffic is via non-VPN? This would solve the problem of constantly having to dis/re…

That’s what they did effectively
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