5 ms·

So VPN?

by varshithr 6y ago

So VPN?

mrlonglong 6y ago
Also, tor does a good job too.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  To avoid congestion on the Tor network, you'd likely want to use Tor for the DNS resolution, but fallback to IPFS and HTTPS directly to IP addresses when fetching the content.
  - generationP 6y ago
    Is sci-hub actually on IPFS now or is it still an idea floating in some heads?
    - toomuchtodo 6y ago
      Sci-hub is not yet on IPFS, libgen content already is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Delivery_to_users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Delivery_to_users
      - zaik 6y ago
        Btw if you want to help mirror some of libgen's files here is how you can do it: https://freeread.org/ipfs/ https://freeread.org/ipfs/
  - DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
    or dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
  - the8472 6y ago
    Are they only blocking it at the DNS level? If so running your own resolver should do the job too.
    - teekert 6y ago
      Yeah, just tap "DNS over HTTPS" Firefox and watch the world open up.
  - worldofmatthew 6y ago
    There is no congestion on the Tor network, Capacity is 2x demand.
deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
giomasce 6y ago
To me the best access way is the Telegram bot. Fast, keeps your files easily accessible and is shared with other devices.
dbetteridge 6y ago
I think just changing your DNS resolver to google/cloudflare still works?
- feu 6y ago
  It doesn't currently work when accessing The Pirate Bay (at least using Virgin Media). I have my DNS resolver set to Cloudflare and I get sent to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html. Manually setting the records in my home DNS server does not work either.
  - dastx 6y ago
    Double check that your DNS settings is correct. I'm on BT and it's working fine for me. I've previously used it on VM fine too.
  - mhh__ 6y ago
    Even more insidious sometimes is that Virgin Media seem to silently block some VPN websites. They may have given up by now but think of those children they saved!
    - Isthatablackgsd 6y ago
      Actually that Virgin is keeping on with this unethical practices. There are posts popping up almost weekly in various VPNs' forum and it always about their speed are so low (dial up/DSL speed) or they reached the timeout. And Virgin don't support IPv6 (it look like they are starting to support IPv6 but they plan to impose 20Mbps cap on IPv6 connection) and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel will 99% to fail to connect or stuck in the loop until timeout.
  - dbetteridge 6y ago
    Ah, talktalk may just be being lazy (or the sci-hub change hasn't hit me yet)
  - akadruid1 6y ago
    I found that Vodafone broadband was intercepting my DNS requests to Cloudflare. Using cloudflared[0] to enable DoH on my pi-hole resolved this. [0] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/ https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

So VPN?

mrlonglong 6y ago

Also, tor does a good job too.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
To avoid congestion on the Tor network, you'd likely want to use Tor for the DNS resolution, but fallback to IPFS and HTTPS directly to IP addresses when fetching the content.
- generationP 6y ago
  Is sci-hub actually on IPFS now or is it still an idea floating in some heads?
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Sci-hub is not yet on IPFS, libgen content already is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Delivery_to_users https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Delivery_to_users
    - zaik 6y ago
      Btw if you want to help mirror some of libgen's files here is how you can do it: https://freeread.org/ipfs/ https://freeread.org/ipfs/
- DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
  or dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
- the8472 6y ago
  Are they only blocking it at the DNS level? If so running your own resolver should do the job too.
  - teekert 6y ago
    Yeah, just tap "DNS over HTTPS" Firefox and watch the world open up.
- worldofmatthew 6y ago
  There is no congestion on the Tor network, Capacity is 2x demand.

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

giomasce 6y ago

To me the best access way is the Telegram bot. Fast, keeps your files easily accessible and is shared with other devices.

dbetteridge 6y ago

I think just changing your DNS resolver to google/cloudflare still works?

feu 6y ago
It doesn't currently work when accessing The Pirate Bay (at least using Virgin Media). I have my DNS resolver set to Cloudflare and I get sent to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html. Manually setting the records in my home DNS server does not work either.
- dastx 6y ago
  Double check that your DNS settings is correct. I'm on BT and it's working fine for me. I've previously used it on VM fine too.
- mhh__ 6y ago
  Even more insidious sometimes is that Virgin Media seem to silently block some VPN websites. They may have given up by now but think of those children they saved!
  - Isthatablackgsd 6y ago
    Actually that Virgin is keeping on with this unethical practices. There are posts popping up almost weekly in various VPNs' forum and it always about their speed are so low (dial up/DSL speed) or they reached the timeout. And Virgin don't support IPv6 (it look like they are starting to support IPv6 but they plan to impose 20Mbps cap on IPv6 connection) and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel will 99% to fail to connect or stuck in the loop until timeout.
- dbetteridge 6y ago
  Ah, talktalk may just be being lazy (or the sci-hub change hasn't hit me yet)
- akadruid1 6y ago
  I found that Vodafone broadband was intercepting my DNS requests to Cloudflare. Using cloudflared[0] to enable DoH on my pi-hole resolved this. [0] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/ https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/