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Blocking Apple iCloud privacy is pretty extreme.

• retired 4mo ago
  It’s basically “give me your IP address before you can continue so we can better data mine you”
  • LRDEV111 4mo ago
    ooo free data!
  • as1mov 4mo ago
    Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.
    • retired 4mo ago
      I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. I do see trackers from multiple big corporations on tcrf.net. What bots are using Apple Private Relay?
      • Telaneo 4mo ago
        > I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Room_Floor_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Room_Floor_(websit...
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      • Xkeeper 4mo ago
        This is fascinating to me, because you just said you can't see it, but also that there are "trackers from multiple big corporations". Can you tell me what those are? I ask primarily because we explicitly don't use any trackers, to a degree I actually pride myself on running a website that doesn't contact anything else: https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png The sole exceptions are YouTube embeds, afaik. I even switched out the MediaWiki and CC badges to be local.
        • Telaneo 4mo ago
          uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.
          • Xkeeper 4mo ago
            If you mean the block page, yes, that's just the YouTube embed. You'll see the same results on any wiki page that has a YouTube embed for the same reason; it's not tracking or anything I have control over (other than outright not having YouTube embeds). But I think if anyone has concerns over that, they're better addressed at the local-user level by disabling all unauthorized iframes.
            • MarioMan 4mo ago
              There are lightweight YouTube embeds like https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed. It’s lauded for faster page loads, but it likely has good privacy implications too since it basically just loads a thumbnail unless you click on it.
            • retired 4mo ago
              Maybe don’t do YouTube embed if it’s just a flickering logo. Use a GIF for that. I’m not disabling my VPN if a website with multiple trackers asks me to.
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    • calmworm 4mo ago
      Why not use a captcha or turnstile?
    • thenthenthen 4mo ago
      Funny it works for me while being on a vpns that gets blocked everywhere…
• dmitrygr 4mo ago
  It isn’t blocked. It is on for me and the site loaded fine.
  • marcosscriven 4mo ago
    It was at the time. Now it’s loading fine. In the 403 screen it specifically called out iCloud privacy.
    • DocTomoe 4mo ago
      It was on for me again, 6 hours later. Ah, another domain for the blacklist.