• Devi@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Which ones? I use it quite a lot and never found a site that has blocked me.

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      Last I tried you couldn’t access social media, Google constantly forces you through captchas because it thinks you’re a bot, and anything on a CDN will either constantly force captchas or just doesn’t work. Financial institutions absolutely are all inaccessible.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve also found that many ones that are blocked aren’t completely blocked, I can access them by using a new circuit (lots of these sites seem to really hate European Exit nodes but anything else has typically worked).

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          Is that what it is? Every once in a while I have to Ctrl+Shift+L it to get into something, but I’ve never watched that closely. What did Europe do to these guys?

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            1 year ago

            I think it might have something to do with the fact that much of Europe has privacy laws that protect their citizens and also makes it so people running nodes there don’t have to kiss up to US companies. Hence why they block those nodes or just give them a huge amount of challenges to solve in hopes to frustrate them. Same with how they put annoying privacy pop-ups on the website in European locations which re-appear every time you login or visit the site.

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              Same with how they put annoying privacy pop-ups on the website in European locations which re-appear every time you login or visit the site.

              I mean, those are mandated, even if they’re implemented deliberately poorly.

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                1 year ago

                I know they require them, it’s is the way that they’re implemented that I’m referring to. Like they made it deliberately frustrating. Some of them one a few websites even pop up twice or even three times and you have to click them multiple times to get them to go down.

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                The best site to read about what is actually mandated and to see how they implement it is https://gdpr.eu … which has a privacy pop up on it that shows up each time.

                We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.

                I’m not sure how deliberate it is.

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                  If you read it a bit, it pretty much lays out what you see everywhere. They can only make you use strictly necessary cookies, and everything else has to be easily opted into or out of. I’m not sure why their own website is different, maybe it has no trackers in the first place.

                  Now, that doesn’t mean it has to be presented in a series of popups.

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      They’re right. I dont have specific examples but a lot of wikis and some general news sites blocked me when i used it.

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        1 year ago

        I mean… I asked for examples and you gave ‘there are examples but I don’t know any’, which is not really supporting the point here.

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      I remember hearing that Yelp blocks Tor users, but I’m not sure if that is the case through proxies.

      Also iirc Cloudflare blocks all Tor exits.

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        I’ve used sites with cloudflare over Tor. They always seem to require pressing a check box, but usually work.

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          I’ve noticed that just as the most aggressive ad blocker blockers are news media websites, the most aggressive tor-exit-node blockers are retail sites such as lowes.com. My working hypothesis is that they view anonymous transactions (or perhaps even anonymous window shopping) as stealing. When it comes to actionable data for market research, data about actual finalized transactions where actual money changed hands is the holy grail. It’s the data that has skin in the game. As for window shopping online, you know the drill, you do that, you hear about it on Fecebook. Until recently I searched retail sites with the site: filter of a search engine (the one that works on Tor, of course), but until recently, most site searches were even more enshittified than most of the two search engines. Now search engines are out and Tor is out. Perhaps offline shopping is in. BTW, just for shits and giggles, try carrying a clipboard next time you visit a brick and mortar retail establishment and see what happens, or better yet, whip out your cell phone and start photographing not merchandise but shelf tags. Information is power, my friends.

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            the most aggressive tor-exit-node blockers are retail sites such as lowes.com.

            Lowes doesn’t care about anonymous window shopping - they care about the transactions. Transactions coming from a tor exit node are more likely to be fraudulent than those from a regular shopper not trying to mask their origin.

            The cost of implementing a tor exit node blocker is much less than the costs associated with fraudulent orders (and the corresponding increase in chargebacks from those fraudulent orders and the impact that has on the usage fees from the credit card processing companies).