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RANT: I hate the fact that my ISP can restrict access to certain sites (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ad_on_is@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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How can it possibly be, that an ISP, which I'm paying for gets to decid, which sites I'm allowed to have access to, and which not?

All the torrenting sites are restricted. I know, I can use VPN, and such... but I want to do it because of my privacy concerns and not because of some higher-up decided to bend over for the lobbying industry.

While on the other hand, if there's a data breach of a legit big-corp website (looking at you FB), I'm still able to access it, they get fined with a fraction of their revenue, and I'm still left empty-handed. What a hipocracy!!

What comes next? Are they gonna restrict me from using lemmy too, bc some lobbyist doesn't like the fact that it's a decentralized system which they have no control over?

Rant, over!

I didn't even know that my router was using my ISPs DNS, and that I can just ditch it, even though I'm running AdGuard (selfhosted)

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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 is free and can be as trusted as any of their other services.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's DNS

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, their warp protocol is a fully fledged VPN. They use the same branding for it

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, Cloudflare themselves seem to say it's not.

What WARP Is Not

From a technical perspective, WARP is a VPN. But it is designed for a very different audience than a traditional VPN. WARP is not designed to allow you to access geo-restricted content when you’re traveling. It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. If you’re looking for that kind of high-security protection then a traditional VPN or a service like Tor are likely better choices for you.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-warp-plus/

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It will get you around ISP and network level blocking, with high bandwidth and considerable less privacy concerns than any other free vpn. It is not surprising that you will need to pay money for geo-spoofing, and due to the nature of it’s design it can only expose your client IP to cloudflare customers. As far as VPNs go, those are very minor restrictions.

Saying it isn’t a VPN is pedantry and also wrong no matter what they say.