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kungen, in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?

That’s an inherent problem with shared connections.

The thing with sites telling you that your login is incorrect is also sometimes intentional, so people trying to brute-force logins won’t realize they’re getting blocked or just that their attempt was incorrect.

And yes, the only possibility is to try a different server that hasn’t been abused, or run your own.

library_napper,
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

This is what 2FA is for

TauZero, in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?

far more maddeningly, some sites tell me that my username and password combo are incorrect when I’m using a VPN

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/c31e82e3-7b36-4d85-9659-b8aa0f4b29c4.jpeg

jasondj,

At least they got that far.

There’s a good reason as a web server to block anonymizing VPNs. Turns out the bad guys use them too. Who knew.

sadreality, in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?

The real solution is to avoid these sites when possible

But this practice tells you what we all needed to know... They won't serve u unless they can track you.

Vote with us feet cattle

user224, in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This is extra maddening with my banking app recently. I even set up split tunneling for it, but it still somehow figures out the VPN. The problem is, it doesn’t let me do ATM withdrawals nor generate one-time virtual cards. Ironically, it still let’s me view full details of my physical card…

So just disconnect from VPN? Oh, not so fast. It remembers that VPN was used at some point, and I’ll have to deactivate the app and then reactivate it without ever connecting to VPN.
Since I have to deactivate and reactivate it daily, immediately when needed, this has led me to decreasing the security by using virtual card reader for 2FA kept on same device as opposed to using physical one and keeping it at home as I used to before this BS.

This is what I mean by the physical 2FA card reader:
https://i.imgur.com/QrcEkko.jpg
Yes, that’s the only thing at hand I had to cover the card number :)

Sanguine,

Lmfao at the arch sticker. Also use arch btw.

jimmydoreisalefty, in Mullvad Convert Encrypted DNS Servers To Run From RAM
ReversalHatchery, in Article 45 Will Roll Back Web Security by 12 Years

As I understand the article says the article was finalized on November 8, 2 days ago. Do we know what was the outcome?

Scary_le_Poo, in Meta payment message
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

Hermit app make PWAs a realistic alternative

promitheas,
@promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Seems like a very interesting app. Is it open source by any chance?

Scary_le_Poo,
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org avatar

No idea, didn’t really care.

hermit.chimbori.com/help/

ultratiem, in Mullvad Convert Encrypted DNS Servers To Run From RAM
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

They have been trying to make this a thing for a while now. Glad they are finally near the finish line!

And if anyone had doubts about their no-log policies. These guys are just great!

opensourcedeeznuts,

I just bought in to mulvad today via Tailscale, so far so good, I like it!

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

I love the entire process. I love that I can send them cash in an envelope with an account number on it and they’ll just top it up lol. I wish every online retailer had to do what they voluntarily do.

ultratiem, in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

You can’t hide behind a VPN and access the entirety of the net. There will always be some site that will block you. It’s just par for the course. Unwinnable battle.

furzegulo, in Is there any Firefox extension to automatically reject cookie popups?
mikarv,
@mikarv@someone.elses.computer avatar

@furzegulo consent-o-matic, made by @midasnouwens https://consentomatic.au.dk. the idontcareaboutcookies one doesn’t do what you want as it auto accepts them or blocks the notice, while consent-o-matic sends a legally binding reject signal.

mikarv, in Is there any Firefox extension to automatically reject cookie popups?
@mikarv@someone.elses.computer avatar

@Weslee consent-o-matic, made by @midasnouwens https://consentomatic.au.dk. the one recommended below auto accepts them or blocks the notice, while consent-o-matic sends the legally binding reject signal.

shakyhans,

Been using this a couple of weeks and it is great. Looking forward to more add-ons like this coming to Firefox for Android.

Inductor,

I would also recommend consent-o-matic. It works really well, and has a really simple interface for letting the devs know when it doesn’t work.

Lemmchen,

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/consent-o-matic/

This add-on is built and maintained by workers at Aarhus University in Denmark. We are privacy researchers that got tired of seeing how companies violate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Because the organisations that enforce the GDPR do not have enough resources, we built this add-on to help them out.

Nice!

github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

hyperspace, in Is there any Firefox extension to automatically reject cookie popups?
@hyperspace@kbin.social avatar

Consent-o-matic automatically goes through the cookie banner and makes sure everything is disabled instead of simply blocking the banner

library_napper, in What can we do about major sites blocking VPN providers?
@library_napper@monyet.cc avatar

We need laws that prevent companies from discriminating by how you look. Websites should only be able to deny customers based on how they act. A simple innocent GET from a user with a VPN IP should not be legally permissible reason to deny them.

pragmakist,
@pragmakist@kbin.social avatar

That thing where they claim the username/password combo is wrong?

That sounds like a really good idea if the site thinks the reason they're a lot of different lock-on attemps from that one ip is because its a hacker with a list of stolen credentials.

Basically just tell them their list is fake and "go away and stop bothering our customers, please."

CmdrShepard,

I’ve had this exact scenario happen with my Amazon account. One the one hand its annoying, but on the other I don’t want them to make it easier for someone in another country to order stuff using my account and credit card.

Rearsays, in Meta payment message

It seems like a nice idea that they offer a paid option for an ad free internet

glasgitarrewelt,

Still a privacy nightmare, with and without ads.

quantenzitrone, in FOSS Firefox Dark Theme Extension?

“Dark Background and Light Text” is much faster than Dark Reader.

shapis,
@shapis@lemmy.ml avatar

Faster in what sense? Doesnt seem to me as if dark reader makes things any slower.

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