And to top it off @EUCommission (according to @BNetzA) made this #Geoblocking - #ban include not just #EU #citizens but any resident...

@ZDF ich würde die ja gern mit den Kindern sehen, jetzt, wo wir Zeit dafür haben, im Urlaub.
Leider lässt #geoblocking das nicht zu.
#dinosaurier #dinos #saurier

@adisonverlice @mullvadnet @freifunk @monocles
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I think the same, and a #VPN has it's merits espechally when it comes to #Geoblocking and high-bandwith applications.

• In fact @torproject warns against #Torrenting over #Tor #BitTorrent clients routinely fuck up and deanonymize users.

(And that's not even accounting for the intensity of traffic that it burdens the Network with!)

@thygrrr @PallasRiot I mean if you just want to circumvent #Geoblocking then yeah...

• Tho not shure if one can VPN to them via #Tor...

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114953865903981711

@hakan_geijer @PallasRiot The only "legitimate use case" for a commercial #VPN I know of is circumventing #Geoblocking...

• Neither will a VPN prevent leakage of data!

That's why I explicitly recommended using #Tails, because that does have mitigations in place against that and @torproject / #TorBrowser does so too...

• Again: Your mileage may vary and depend on the individual threat assessment on a case-by-case basis.

@landley @pmevzek @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea And that is espechally baffling considering that #APNIC as #RIR ran out of #IPv4|s first.

• And right now I'm between a rock and a hard place and either become a @ripencc member or cough up equal amounts in monthly installments just to get some properly geolocated #IPv6.

Cuz people telling me "Oh, just use HEnet's Tunnelbroker"" never experienced the shitshow that is #Geoblocking and #GDPR-#Noncompliance with #Malvertising to slap their faces!

• Cuz believe me, I tried, but since some idiots decided to #GeoIP entire #ASN|s and not #IP - #Allocations the PoP in FRA (FFM actually) will get me mislocated to the #USA!

@neu3no @halva yes and no.

• I can see the benefit of a miniaturized retro gaming system (I think legacy systems need to be served with properly maintained software & hardware).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1E2vjpcRo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WfiRRvQXo

As with #IPv4 the problem is that there is no mandate to provide users with static prefixes and I'm stuck on a /28 of IPv4's and can't even get a singoe /64.

• And before you ask: No, #Tunnelbroker is not a valid solution as HE.net's tunnel will get #USA #GeoIP'd even eith the PoP in FRA so it bricks a shitload of things due to #Geoblocking and bad #peering. Believe me, I tried that already!

@jwildeboer I do #GeoBlocking on the login side of my server (submission, imap). Only login from an European country is allowed. This is possible, because I usually know the whereabouts of my users. If we travel outside Europe, I can temporarily allow that counrty. :-)

Do you do anything of that kind?

@EUCommission My proposal for unlocking the potential of one particular creative industry (one we invented in Europe) is to smack Ruben Östlund and all politicians he's lobbied for #geoblocking over the head with the Consolidated version of The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union open at Article 101 until they stop blocking Europeans from learning about each other and entertaining each other with popculture.

https://eupolicy.social/@Veza85UE/111574381900505708

@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.

Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)

• I mean they could've also gone the #DECnet approach and use the #EUI48 / #MAC-Address (or #EUI64) as static addressing system, but that would've made #vendors and not #ISPs the powerful forces of allocation. (Similar to how technically the #ICCID dictates #GSM / #4G / #5G access and not the #IMEI unless places like Australia ban imported devices.

I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...

• Personally I've only had headaches with #IPv6 because not only do I only have #IPv4only #Internet but my #ISP refuses to allocate even a singe /64 to me (but has no problem throwing in a free /29 of #IPv4's in with my contract!)and stuff like #HurricaneElectric / #HEnet's #Tunnelbroker fail face first due to #Geoblocking and the fact that #ASNs get geolocated, not their #PoPs...

If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!

@shoppingtonz @alternativeto @torproject also every #Tunneling - regardless if #SSH or #VPN or whatever - will inevitably introduce #latency (unless you happen to be customer of a shitty #ISP with horrible #peering and thus can cut down on hops needed, which is AFAIK only a theoretical scenario)...

• Outside of circumventing #Geoblocking and bypassing #IP-based #Banning (i.e. for #Cheating) I've not seen any use-cases.

In fact I stopped using #HEnet #Tunnelbroker and #IPv6-#GIF-Tunneling because it created more issued than it solved on my #IPv4only #Internet connection…