Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more
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Re: Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more
#2From what i've seen on twitter, the Indonesian government has blocked it on a DNS level and not a Network/ ISP level, very weird
Re: Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more
#3From what i've seen on twitter, the Indonesian government has blocked it on a DNS level and not a Network/ ISP level, very weird
Not really weird, DNS-level blocking is quite common (also easy to bypass, sure)
Re: Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more
#4From what i've seen on twitter, the Indonesian government has blocked it on a DNS level and not a Network/ ISP level, very weird
Not really weird, DNS-level blocking is quite common (also easy to bypass, sure)
But if the whole point of blocking something is to "stop people from using it"
why would they use the easiest method of blocking to bypass
Re: Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really weird, DNS-level blocking is quite common (also easy to bypass, sure)
But if the whole point of blocking something is to "stop people from using it" why would they use the easiest method of blocking to bypass
Goal isn't to block citizens, but force hand of these companies to follow new regulations.
In that sense it is cheap and proven tool. For average consumer bypassing block isn't common. Thus force these companies to keep average consumers they will bend or leave.
Re: Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if the whole point of blocking something is to "stop people from using it" why would they use the easiest method of blocking to bypass
Goal isn't to block citizens, but force hand of these companies to follow new regulations. In that sense it is cheap and proven tool. For average consumer bypassing block isn't common. Thus force these companies to keep average consumers they will bend or leave.
Yea my bad, I was just going by "Logic", without looking for any context etc, typical chronic internet user here