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| Karel:
--- Quote from: Bicurico on October 20, 2023, 10:47:14 am ---My goverment is indeed blockinig part of the internet. I cannot open sites like PirateBay when using the DNS servers of my internet provider. But, I can chose to simply use some other DNS server and yes, I do use Google's DNS server. I accept that in return of being able to have unfiltered access to any domain using Google's DNS, Google gets to know my whole surfing profile, including all the shady sites I visit. Stil, in this case I prefer Google to know it instead of my local ISP that is monitored by my goverment. Human kind has managed freedom in a very poor way, giving minorities the freedom to be against freedom. But that is a whole new subject, fully off-topic. --- End quote --- I prefer Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) over google's DNS. Probably Cloudfare isn't perfect, but I believe that, regarding privacy, google is the worst. |
| madires:
Pro tip: run your own DNS resolver with DNSSEC support fully turned on. |
| amwales:
I use an adblocker uBlock Origin and have been banned from using this now with youtube. They gave me the 3 video limit and its either watch with ads or register for premium. I thought I would have to give up watching youtube, then I saw post on here with bigclive and the video was embedded and strangely it played without ads. After a little digging I found that simple rewriting the url for the video I want to watch from to https://www.youtube.com/embed/v5liq9Tj3aU This change made the video play, I was able to do this with any video and my adblocker continued to work, YMMV. |
| Ranayna:
--- Quote from: tom66 on October 20, 2023, 10:48:16 am ---VPNs couldn't be banned technically, once you have encrypted DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS) it's possible to tunnel everything through a VPN and all that can be seen is you are sending encrypted traffic to an IPv6 address, that could be anyone and the IPv6 address can be frequently renewed. Encrypted traffic looks similar to compressed video/data, so unless you're doing deep packet inspection it's very difficult to distinguish it from that, and of course there are entirely legitimate non-VPN uses for encryption. Governments hate encryption being used en-masse by big tech because it makes the NSA's (and national equivalents) job much, much harder. --- End quote --- And that is very likely why the EU and UK are looking into mandating backdoors for cryptography. With a backdor, they can look into whatever you are transmitting, then it is trivial to filter and block. And if they can't look into the traffic: well, you have circumvented the mandated backdoor, with all the consequences that entails... |
| MK14:
--- Quote from: amwales on October 20, 2023, 12:07:29 pm ---I use an adblocker uBlock Origin and have been banned from using this now with youtube. They gave me the 3 video limit and its either watch with ads or register for premium. --- End quote --- That sounds far too aggressive to me, and is a sort of blackmail. I wonder if the governing bodies, could take them to court over it? The thing is, companies really can get a terrible image, and it can be damaging. I think Google/YouTube's, stance, could back-fire big-time in various ways. For example, some people would refuse to work for Google now, and some advertisers might start backing away from Google, if they are getting a very bad image. Sales of the Google Pixel Phones, could decline, etc. |
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