Yeah, and you could also block all Albanians from shopping at your store by asking them as they come in: “Are you Albanian?” Yeah, you have a photo-catalog of known Albanians, and some general descriptions of what Albanians look like, but are you really going to actually, successfully block all Albanians? No. And the more you try, the more you’re going to block non-Albanians just because they “look like they might be an Albanian…”
Apologies to Albanians, you’re just an alphabetically early example - nothing about Albainia or Albainians in particular, the same could be said for Bulgarians, Croatians, Danish, Estonians, Finnish, Greeks, etc.
I also use that, and it’s just all over the place.
I’ve had issues with my carrier, so I just used foreign SIM in roaming for a while. €11 for 40GB is not that bad.
And then I found I can’t purchase a train ticket. For some reason, ZSSK (Slovakian passenger railway company) blocked IPs of Lifecell (Ukrainian MNO), but was fine with IP from RackNerd (Virginia).
Oh, and the university I am at blocks IPs from “3rd world countries”, the result of which was that Asburn, Virginia is fine, but somehow New York is a 3rd world country.
Their instructions say to use any EU-based VPN.
OneDrive uploads would only work for me over Mullvad without crashing.
You’re right they could. But I’m a systems architect who deals with university wide networks so I know what a cluster fuck that would be. It would be absolutely unmanageable. I’d wager there is no way in hell they are gonna do that.
I’m hopeful that an adult in the room is going to show how unworkable this is gonna be but who knows.
They probably know this, and are pushing it anyway - for the votes and the lobbyist backing. (most) voters don’t know how ridiculous it is from the technical perspective, and the lobbyists are only looking for their own financial advantages which often come from chaos.
an adult in the room
They’re all adults, just not adults who care what they break.
There’s services that not only check for known VPN servers, but also for IPs in datacenter IP blocks. So using a VPS could in theory also be blocked.
Yeah, and you could also block all Albanians from shopping at your store by asking them as they come in: “Are you Albanian?” Yeah, you have a photo-catalog of known Albanians, and some general descriptions of what Albanians look like, but are you really going to actually, successfully block all Albanians? No. And the more you try, the more you’re going to block non-Albanians just because they “look like they might be an Albanian…”
Apologies to Albanians, you’re just an alphabetically early example - nothing about Albainia or Albainians in particular, the same could be said for Bulgarians, Croatians, Danish, Estonians, Finnish, Greeks, etc.
I set up a VPS as a VPN server just for me. There’s sites have definitely done this. Reddit for one. I get cloudflare captchas a lot as well.
I also use that, and it’s just all over the place.
I’ve had issues with my carrier, so I just used foreign SIM in roaming for a while. €11 for 40GB is not that bad.
And then I found I can’t purchase a train ticket. For some reason, ZSSK (Slovakian passenger railway company) blocked IPs of Lifecell (Ukrainian MNO), but was fine with IP from RackNerd (Virginia).
Oh, and the university I am at blocks IPs from “3rd world countries”, the result of which was that Asburn, Virginia is fine, but somehow New York is a 3rd world country.
Their instructions say to use any EU-based VPN.
OneDrive uploads would only work for me over Mullvad without crashing.
I also had Reddit block Czech T-Mobile IPs.
You’re right they could. But I’m a systems architect who deals with university wide networks so I know what a cluster fuck that would be. It would be absolutely unmanageable. I’d wager there is no way in hell they are gonna do that.
I’m hopeful that an adult in the room is going to show how unworkable this is gonna be but who knows.
They probably know this, and are pushing it anyway - for the votes and the lobbyist backing. (most) voters don’t know how ridiculous it is from the technical perspective, and the lobbyists are only looking for their own financial advantages which often come from chaos.
They’re all adults, just not adults who care what they break.
I hate how true this is….