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Since early 2020 Netflix has cracked down on VPN users by disconnecting sessions at random and terminating SSL connections to their main website. This action is to due to content distributors pressuring Netflix to prevent users from accessing content outside of their geographical zone as they believe this is costing them in terms of profit. The end result is that users who always use a VPN to access the internet are cut from Netflix as collateral damage even if their account is registered in the same country where they connect to a VPN for. While some VPN providers have given up, NordVPN and a few others are battling on to provide their users with peace of mind while accessing services on the internet.
Can I get my money back because Netflix is not delivering the service I paid for?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 11 2020, @04:05PM (9 children)
If it is so easy to detect, it isn't of much use.
While we're at it, let's get rid of DNS, in fact the whole client/server setup has to go. When are we going to do peer to peer on the WAN?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Arik on Saturday April 11 2020, @04:37PM (6 children)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 11 2020, @04:50PM (5 children)
The internet is not peer to peer
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday April 11 2020, @05:12PM (4 children)
That design has been perverted by the refusal of ISPs to provide proper service, and all the entrenched interests building crap at the application layer to subvert that design, but it's still fundamentally a peer to peer network underneath all of that.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 11 2020, @05:23PM (3 children)
Until we can circumvent the ISP, I can't call it peer to peer. We're just on their client/server LAN. And it really is an unacceptable single point of failure. No ISP, no internet.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by FunkyLich on Saturday April 11 2020, @11:59PM (2 children)
Any suggestions on where can we start the process of circumventing the ISP and still be able to connect and use the Worldwide Network?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:53PM
Live in a place with multiple ISPs.
Here in Canada, the local access providers (such as the telephone and cable networks) are required to make their lines available to other ISP's at regulated rates. There end up being a lot of independent ISPs as a result.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @10:00PM
But you can use Tor as an address resolution layer, although it's addresses are much uglier than clearnet dns.
I2P also had the addressbook notion, where you could arbitrarily assign domain names to addresses (although if they didn't match and the site uses virtual domains, you would at best get stuck with the default domain pages.)
0 hop Tor doesn't provide any obscurity (it should definitely not be considered anonymity, even at 3 hops, most of the self selecting nodes due to performance appear to be run by 5 eyes in large clusters. Look for the 'nifty*' series of nodes and a variety of adjacent class c addresses. And don't get me started on questionable guard node selection...) but it does provide ingress-capable service hosting anywhere you need it, even behind a firewall or NAT, decent performance for almost any site, and the ability to automatically generate a new domain at any time, although generating 'vanity' domains will require non-trivial computer time for the more memorable and long a portion of the address you require.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2020, @10:55PM (1 child)
What alternative to DNS do you propose and where does it lie on Zooko's triangle?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:55PM
Aren't there some proposals for totally distributed DNS systems? Don't know how they deal with name collisions.
Maybe we'd end up with something like UUCP's old bang addresses.
-- hendrik