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How does step 5 work? Switching DNS servers is trivial.
by username332211 1y ago
How does step 5 work? Switching DNS servers is trivial.
- postexitus 1y agoFor you - not for 99% of the public.
- username332211 1y agoEhh, if a youth of digital piracy has taught me anything, it's that people will develop the necessary computer literacy to get the entertainment they want. Even if they've completely failed to develop that same skill in the pursuit of self improvement. I feel that says something about human psychology. Probably something very unpleasant.
- anonym29 1y agoHuman adaptivity is perhaps both our biggest strength and biggest weakness. It's the same force behind our greatest innovations and our greatest tragedies, and even fuels the apathetic indifference towards those tragedies, too.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agohttps://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls The iOS instructions are the most onerous (IMO) but still easy enough to follow. It's 15 minutes of fumbling around for the non-technical person, then they're protected. (Though, as others have pointed out, this is probably moot. The blocking is more effectively done by ISPs.)
- ramesh31 1y ago>It's 15 minutes of fumbling around for the non-technical person, then they're protected. You and I have very different ideas of what "non-technical" means. If it involves anything beyond pressing "download" on the app store, it's out of reach of the vast majority of users.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoFair enough, there's a wide variance there. I'd still hesitate to say it's out of reach for most people as they'll likely have someone they know who would be able to follow those instructions for them. For the purpose of being able to access something they used to be able to access, I think most people will be able to figure this out. The point is that it's one-and-done in most instances. (To that end there's a reasonable worry that OS updates reset these settings but that's kind of a separate problem.)
- saberience 1y agoMulvad is totally non technical, you just download it and press “connect” and boom you’re on a vpn? Is that really so complex the average person can’t do it? It’s less complex than sending an email.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoThe instructions I linked are to set up DoH/DoT with their (free!) service, so it's a little bit more involved than downloading an app; just not too much more involved to someone who's motivated to regain something they lost.
- aaomidi 1y agoIn countries like Iran 80%+ of the population knows how to. It’s all a matter of incentives.
- qingcharles 1y agoThis. Practically the entire Middle East has blocks on sites like porn. Every household I know pays for a VPN that they share with all their family members.
- jdietrich 1y agoMillions of British people are already engaged in a cat-and-mouse game against online censorship, for one main reason - football (soccer). If you're a British football fan and want to watch every live televised match, you'll need to pay £75 a month for subscriptions to both Sky Sports and TNT Sports. That won't actually allow you to watch all of the matches that are played, because for weird historical reasons there's a TV blackout on matches played on Saturday afternoon - even if you've paid for your subscriptions, you'll only be able to watch about half of all league matches on TV. Alternatively, you can pay some bloke in the pub £50 for a Fire TV Stick pre-programmed with access to a bunch of pirated IPTV streams and a VPN to circumvent blocking, or get a mate to show you how to do it yourself - no subscription, no blackout. As a bonus, you get free access to Netflix and Disney+ and everything else. Sellers of dodgy Fire Sticks occasionally get caught and imprisoned, a handful of users occasionally get nasty letters from the Federation Against Copyright Theft, but it's too widespread to really stop. Practically every workplace or secondary school class has someone who knows the ins-and-outs of circumventing DNS- and IP-level blocking; the lad who showed you how to watch live football on your phone or get free Netflix will be more than happy to show you how to access adult sites without verifying your age. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illicit-streaming-devices/illicit-streaming-devices https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/illicit-streaming... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_on_television#3pm_%22blackout%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_on_television...
- HPsquared 1y agoCopyright and censorship involve similar technological issues, but the ethics and legal aspects are totally different.
- SoftTalker 1y agoI've tried the "IPTV streams" to watch blacked out NHL games, and they are often terribly overloaded or just don't work at all. Not something I'd pay for.
- chatmasta 1y agoJust search for the name of the sport and “bite” and you’ll find some sketchy successor of the original subreddits for pirated sports streams (“r/nflbite,” “r/nbabite,” etc.) Or find the latest streameast mirror which is usually the best. Make sure your ad blocker is working. Then it’s just a matter of finding the best stream, extracting the playlist, and opening VLC. I documented [0] some useful tricks for this technique and the comments also include more useful snippets and bookmarklets. [0] https://gist.github.com/milesrichardson/4661c311199b98023701f6cecd3b89b0 https://gist.github.com/milesrichardson/4661c311199b98023701...
- sejje 1y agoMy dad can hardly use a mouse, but the systems I put in place for him are pretty complex. He has no idea.
- CommanderData 1y agostep 6: Block non-compliant DNS servers
- kps 1y agoStep 7: Camera AI that can catch the people scribbling “Sci-Hub is 190.115.31.218” on a bathroom wall.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 1y agoDoes that even work anymore? I thought plain IP addresses were a thing of the past ever since we started doing virtual hosts 25 years ago. I just get a 503 when I use the address you posted...
- thedrexster 1y agoPut it in your hosts file ;)
- CWuestefeld 1y agoIf you just point your browser to https://<ip_address> then it won't work. You also need to have the correct hostname in the http request headers. The easiest way to accomplish this is to add the address into your .hosts file (as sibling post says) and just use the name.
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- supriyo-biswas 1y agoDNS poisoning and rejection of TLS handshakes based on SNI.
- aaomidi 1y agoThis is why I’m really pissed off at how long ECH has taken. And it’s all because of corporate interests at IETF.
- LexiMax 1y agoThat's one domain down. Only 3,524 domains that just cropped up yesterday to go. Never mind the fact that doing a Google search will surface pages on various wikis, git repositories, and other sites that conveniently list all of the mirrors.
- HDThoreaun 1y agoBig enough barrier to stop most users
- LexiMax 1y agoMost users default to search engines instead of typing in a URL. I searched for "pirate bay" just now and all of the top results are mirrors or lists of mirrors.
- worewood 1y agoEncrypted Client Hello and DNS over HTTPS.
- supriyo-biswas 1y agoDrop all ECH TLS connections, as China does.
- themafia 1y agoCreating the "Great Firewall of the UK" without actually calling it that: Priceless.
- raydev 1y agoAnd yet most people won't bother doing it. Same way most attempts to stop piracy work. The people who are serious about getting around the blocks will find ways, but the less motivated will just give up (again, this is most people).