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submitted 5 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

If I disable uBlock, Deezer loads just fine, despite NextDNS and Pi-Hole doing their thing. Anyone know how to troubleshoot or fix things?

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[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

For me it loads fine with uBlock, but they have started to implement some basic VPN-blocking apparently (or enabled whatever their CDN provider talked them into or whatever). A simple reconnect seems to do the trick with ProtonVPN however.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 0 points 5 months ago

They're trying way too hard?

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

No, they are literally not. Blocking VPN users is literally the low effort thing to do because the rate of problematic attacks and similar high effort issues coming from those IPs is much higher than the few legitimate users using VPNs are worth.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 5 months ago

It's like blocking IP addresses when most people have dynamic IPs. It looks like you're being hard on people and doing lots, but in reality, you're just harming innocent users.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

But that is the point. Most people do not use VPNs, you harm very few legitimate customers and save yourself the headache of dealing with all those who use VPNs for scams, attacks, exploits,...

The trade-off is entirely different from dynamic IPs.

Also, the admins running those things don't do stuff to look like they are doing things, they wouldn't care if you use a VPN if there was no downside to treating VPN IPs like any other.

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al -3 points 5 months ago

I disagree, there's many legitimate reasons to run VPNs. Even if said users are few in number, they shouldn't be assumed to be dodgy.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

is deezer a "justifiable" (or, in your words, legitimate) use of a vpn?

:/

[-] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 0 points 5 months ago

deezer prolly use 200 shit tons 3rd party services. so yeah.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

then don't use deezer

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