How to destroy the goodwill of your visitors and fast track your company into irrelevancy in one picture:
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Can I get some help from you with something?
I have not been able to get my zaps working either
Aaron Swartz would have been uber-radicalised if he saw what became of Reddit. He would have single-handedly built his way out of this dystopia
He already saw this and was doing that when he was alive, you should read more about him for real fam
One time I filed a ticket just to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Unless you use Mullvad (Mullvad gets blocked often with streaming services, financial sites, etc., due to abuse and because its implementation of the WireGuard protocol making it easily detected), just switch VPN servers.
It's the principle that they are deep packet inspecting their visitor traffic, and not only surveilling, but taking action on it by rejecting anyone who they can't positively identify. It's unethical and dystopian. Also many VPN services are honeypots and it's a red flag if they are let through imho
I understand what you mean, though they likely don't need DPI. There are simpler methods most websites use to block VPNs: IP address lists, port analysis, detecting multiple connections from single IPs, etc.
And to play devil's advocate for a second, it's not just financial services and streaming services that do this to prevent fraud and unauthorized use/abuse of their services, even some elite private torrent sites block VPNs to prevent unauthorized access, sharing of exclusive releases, and abuse (which results in immediate bans).
AFAIC, it's their site, they can do as they please, and people can choose to not agree to those terms of service and not use the site as they please. Freedom works both ways.
Typo: "multiple" should more specifically say "high volume."
in most cases the users don't bring the money so there's that too
the other thing is that they wouldn't have this problem if they used a strong authentication system
IMO if your security is such that you block people by IP address ranges it's an easy target and sooner or later everyone who uses it is going to get doxxed
If they use strong authentication then it becomes a walled garden. That's where they're headed anyways.
They do bring the money, but only when they identify you. You don't have to log in for that: a revealing IP address is enough to match you on the data broker network and make the (advertising data) sale.
You're right they can do as they please. Also they are not important.
i have a rule: if it blocks vpn it isn't my friend
i run my own, just a tunnel to a VPS and i get some sites fucking with me, those sites i use as little as i can
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