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Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users' internet connections with strangers (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You have experienced the problem and you do it anyway?

Services that do region blocking also tend to block public VPNs. Breaking the internet like this is bad, and you should feel bad for doing it.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Tell that to the guy in Lagos I had to report a few years ago for breaching one of my personal services. Nigerian Police have a dedicated Cybercrime division and they didn't even reply to my report through their official channels. Sorry, but Nigeria went on the geoblocklist! I have a right to not expose myself to undue risk.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, you have the right to manage your servers however you like... and I have the right to unfairly use you as a proxy for my rage at everyone who has ever broken the Internet's global nature to make their server log files a little less noisy.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It's not just log files - I was running a bad version of some software and suddenly my VPS was cryptomining and they tried to export common config directories. They got nothing and I cleaned it up but I'm not letting my VPS join a botnet and attack others. If the side effect of that is that Nigerians cannot read my person blog or access my self hosted services with 30 users I think this is ok.

    I'll happily accept your ire as I also wish the internet was generally safer and more open.

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