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I am curious, why would a workplace block the mullvad.net domain? Or is it rather a whitelist thing?

• skyyler 1y ago
  People use VPN services at workplaces to circumvent web filters.
• hypeatei 1y ago
  "proxy avoidance" is the listed reason on my corporate network.
• FirmwareBurner 1y ago
  IDK, why do some workplaces ban Steam domain? Or block Mozilla but not Chrome? IT people are weird.
• npteljes 1y ago
  Many workplaces use a corporate firewall, and on the admin panel, they can enable-disable categories of websites, like "Porn", "Adult themes", "Gambling", "Social", "Video streaming", "AI", etc. One of the categories could be "VPN", *.mullvad.net can fall into it, and it could be that they disabled that category. At many workplaces, it's against the rules to circumvent the company's monitoring, and so, many of such technologies are banned.
  • 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
    Which is a killer because so many developer tools are on “naughty” domains (eg .dev and .ai) which are automatically blocklisted
    • npteljes 1y ago
      I don't think that .ai is automatically filtered in this case, it's more of a case by case basis. But it's killer nevertheless. "Adult themes" for example is a large umbrella at OpenDNS, and for example I wanted to check the lyrics of a song I was listening to, and it was hosted on darklyrics.com. Nope, couldn't visit, because it's Adult Themes. https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061439112-Requests-to-Recategorize-Popular-Domains https://support.opendns.com/hc/en-us/articles/360061439112-R...
    • culopatin 1y ago
      Lol doesn’t matter, my company won’t let me install anything not whitelisted anyway. The whitelist: The blacklist: *
• taco_emoji 1y ago
  Because they block VPNs