VPN block ?

[Malxwal]

I sometimes require to use a VPN due my location, which has been resulting in SD telling me my IP has been banned ?

 

[csl]

Have you got a screen capture I could take a look at please? I think there is only a couple of IP’s that is banned currently.

Edit: Is it ‘OVH SAS VPN Server’ by any chance?

 

[Malxwal]

If it's of any help, the VPN, or more correctly tunneling app, is Psiphon Pro.

 

[csl]

Ok, I think they use OVH SAS IP addresses. I can probably open them up now, but I’ll need to check.

 

[csl]

Yes, it was an OVH SAS IP. I’ve opened it up again.

 

[Malxwal]

And now it works, thank you !

 

[Tazz]

I sometimes require to use a VPN due my location, which has been resulting in SD telling me my IP has been banned ?

Your not connecting in from “ The Dark Web” are you, just checking

 

[gixer1]

It’s all the websites he’s been on looking at chaps and stetsons….

 

[zambezi]

Yes, it was an OVH SAS IP. I’ve opened it up again.

Curious: did you block based on elevated spam observed at SD? Or imported blacklist?

connecting in from “ The Dark Web”

Some mainstream entities supply onion routing addresses [so called "Dark Web"] such as the New York Times:

https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2lljsciiyd.onion/

Or search engine Startpage:

http://startpagel6srwcjlue4zgq3zevrujfaow726kjytqbbjyrswwmjzcqd.onion/

Simply this: big tech has been tracking and monetising all human activity on the web since the 90s. Those that realise the potential harms in that are furnishing obfuscating/anonymising solutions. The "Dark Web" is not a different beast to the internet. It is architected/routed differently which makes surveillance and regulation difficult. And thus is a haven for wrong 'uns and saints alike.

It goes without saying that if you are not tech-savvy, do not lurch into the "Dark Web". But it remains an additional layer of protection for anyone who does not want to haemmorage data to big tech.

For those that think their footprint on the net is no problem, sharing personal data just fine...yadda yadda, Google Meredith Whittaker [head of Signal] in an ozzie interview in front of a large live audience. To someone on the panel who expressed a "I have nothing to hide" chirp, she asked them to close their eyes and think back 20 years to a younger time in their life and to then paste the emails and texts they sent then on the walls of the hall now so the audience can see them.

That is the power of big tech. They have decades of "you" and AI is now giving them the power to sift that cache. Are you the same feckless yoof you once were? Might some previous online indiscipline come back to mar your future? Taint your credit rating? Affect your employment profile?

 

[csl]

Curious: did you block based on elevated spam observed at SD? Or imported blacklist?

It was based on spammers (maybe foreign) connecting to the SD using VPN IPs that were in the UK.