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1. jeffpa+D5[view] [source] 2025-09-16 01:32:45
>>wicket+(OP)
My Android phone prevents me from taking screenshots if an app author doesn't want me to.

My Android phone prevents me from recording phone calls at the request of my carrier, even though it's totally legal for me to do so in my jurisdiction.

I'm not loving where this is all going.

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2. ulrikr+Im[view] [source] 2025-09-16 04:34:54
>>jeffpa+D5
My government (Denmark) refusing to let me use their digital identity app because I don't want to accept Google's or Apple's TOS, and Google helping them enforce that via remote attestation services.

Luckily there are alternatives in the form of code displays and NFC chips. However, next year I won't be able to watch porn unless I verify my age using a smartphone, no alternatives are planned. Or rather, I have the "free choice" to choose between a privacy preserving ZKP solution operating in the kingdom of Google or uploading my face to a porn site.

Dark times.

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3. nicman+Mr[view] [source] 2025-09-16 05:31:23
>>ulrikr+Im
route everything through a vps?
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4. Aerroo+3D[view] [source] 2025-09-16 07:19:06
>>nicman+Mr
It's a temporary solution though. It's only going to get more draconian. Next thing you know the talk is about punishing VPN users, because now they can be painted as evading the law.
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5. nicman+jE[view] [source] 2025-09-16 07:30:00
>>Aerroo+3D
i mean yeah but you cannot do shit all about a vps. commercial vpns yeah you can ban and monitor. a vps is your own device just elsewhere
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6. mschus+iQ[view] [source] 2025-09-16 09:15:13
>>nicman+jE
> i mean yeah but you cannot do shit all about a vps

Of course you can. The AS numbers of major hosting providers are well known and it is already common practice to ban associated IP addresses for stuff that should only be done by legitimate users.

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7. nicman+MT[view] [source] 2025-09-16 09:44:34
>>mschus+iQ
you cannot ban aws or linenode my dude
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8. jbstac+D21[view] [source] 2025-09-16 11:09:22
>>nicman+MT
Why not?
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9. nicman+7J1[view] [source] 2025-09-16 15:03:42
>>jbstac+D21
because half of the internet is there
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10. mschus+1k2[view] [source] 2025-09-16 17:59:39
>>nicman+7J1
That's why I explicitly wrote: "for stuff that should only be done by legitimate users".

That means Netflix et al can (and do) ban everything that even remotely smells like a datacenter IP range and not a residential one, because that is a common method of evading regional bans or undermine pricing structure.

And on top of that... if the focus of your website is humans, you might want to cut off all datacenter originating traffic as well. Save yourself the hassle of dealing with AI scrapers.

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