Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It might work, but I absolutely wouldn’t trust it or give it permissions to domain a browser session.
It’s essentially proxying your requests between yourself and God knows where to bypass Imgur’s GeoIP location blocking to comply with the UK laws.
Just use a well known VPN instead. Much safer. I think Proton and Mullvad both have free tiers for stuff like this, and you’re not sending your traffic to some random person who made this extension and can do whatever with the permissions you’d have to give it.
between yourself and God knows where
Kinda gathered that bit. 🙁 I may install it and try to track exactly how that flow works. Anyway, seems an easy way to bypass the UK’s block without hassling with a VPN.
I’m in Florida. Fire up my VPN to surf porn. But that’s not a thing I want running 24/7, let alone just to browse lemmy.
But that’s not a thing I want running 24/7, let alone just to browse lemmy.
Why not?
Browsing lemmy is probably fine, but the general internet is a god damn nightmare to browse on a VPN. Can’t load that one reddit search result with what you need. Endless google captchas making you do traffic light after traffic light on sites you didn’t even kniw used google. Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps. And I’ve had plenty of instances of cloudflare blocking VPNs to certain sites.
For the reddit thing: have you heard of libredirect?
My VPN is on 100% of the time. The only thing I can confirm is that reddit sometimes blocks my VPN (guess there IP list isn’t quite complete), but in that case I just use a libreddit frontend (should do that anyway).
Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps.
Are you using a free one? I at least get 500 mbps download through my vpn, usually more.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imgur blocks me on Mullvad like 99% of the time. Not sure about Proton, though.