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This has been locked down -- presumably including using targeting services provided by some businesses that apparently don't get reported on, much -- to the poi

This has been locked down -- presumably including using targeting services provided by some businesses that apparently don't get reported on, much -- to the point where I've started talking about the "curated" Web/Internet. There are already large, shadowy forces increasingly differentiating traffic. This also includes access at all via a VPN; more and more, I run into web sites that refuse to serve you at all if you hit them with an IP address associated with a VPN. Or, they put you through rounds of Recaptcha. At first, it was just the big commercial streamers. Now, it's a lot more.

mythrwy 9y ago
Yes. And this applies much of the time even if you run your own VPN from a data center.
- pasbesoin 9y ago
  That, I wasn't aware of. It's been on my mind to set one up. I principally use a VPN to keep Comcast and Verizon out of my business (there's no need I endorse for them to sniff -- much less inject into -- my traffic). As archive.is and others and now increasingly even Google block me and make me jump through hoops, I'd been thinking rolling my own was the next step. I suppose I can switch to business class Internet at home and run a local server, but... Curated Internet. One not of our choosing...