Why websites shouldn't indiscriminately block VPN users

I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here's the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.

https://blog.kamens.us/2025/10/25/why-websites-shouldnt-indiscriminately-block-vpn-users/
#VPN #infosec #UserExperience #UX #MassachusettsRMV #WillBrownsberger

Why websites shouldn't indiscriminately block VPN users

I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here's the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.

https://blog.kamens.us/2025/10/25/why-websites-shouldnt-indiscriminately-block-vpn-users/
#VPN #infosec #UserExperience #UX #MassachusettsRMV #WillBrownsberger

Chris Hoffman, whom I've had the pleasure to edit in the past, writes about the sausage being made in the VPN recommendation world

It's a good read
https://windowsread.me/p/the-best-vpns-no-affiliate-links
#tech #technology #VPN #journalism #ethics

Chris Hoffman, whom I've had the pleasure to edit in the past, writes about the sausage being made in the VPN recommendation world

It's a good read
https://windowsread.me/p/the-best-vpns-no-affiliate-links
#tech #technology #VPN #journalism #ethics

A #linux application runs inside an LX-branded zone, where the #Illumos kernel (descended from #Solaris) natively implements the Linux kernel ABI. A #VPN connection, terminated in a separate Solaris-style zone, routes the application's traffic to a VPN endpoint on an #OpenBSD system running #Nginx, which serves #HTTPS content on a custom domain.
Life is great!

A #linux application runs inside an LX-branded zone, where the #Illumos kernel (descended from #Solaris) natively implements the Linux kernel ABI. A #VPN connection, terminated in a separate Solaris-style zone, routes the application's traffic to a VPN endpoint on an #OpenBSD system running #Nginx, which serves #HTTPS content on a custom domain.
Life is great!

#NordVPN embraces #OpenSource by releasing its #Linux GUI on #GitHub

https://nerds.xyz/2025/10/nordvpn-linux-gui-open-source-snap/

#VPN #cybersecurity #privacy

In the hope that this might reach someone who might some day be in a position to decide whether to allow #VPN traffic to their app…
Please understand that this does not just impact your app.
Most devices run background apps that use the network frequently, including privacy-critical apps like Signal.
When you make someone turn off their VPN to use your app, the background traffic for all those _other_ apps also stops using the VPN.
Don't be an #infosec asshole. Stop blocking VPN traffic.

In the hope that this might reach someone who might some day be in a position to decide whether to allow #VPN traffic to their app…
Please understand that this does not just impact your app.
Most devices run background apps that use the network frequently, including privacy-critical apps like Signal.
When you make someone turn off their VPN to use your app, the background traffic for all those _other_ apps also stops using the VPN.
Don't be an #infosec asshole. Stop blocking VPN traffic.

#VPN
l y vraiment trop de choses qui ne vont pas dans tous ces VPN commerciaux.
https://windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-relationship-map/

My daughter left home because University is located towns-away from here. This means she now has to connect her iPad to $HOME in order to watch the movies that are hosted in our local VOD system.

Yet another #OpenBSD and #Wireguard user that don’t even know about it. She only knows that she uses a #VPN and that it’s not NordVPN.

#RunBSD

🔥 Vous utilisez #Linux Mint et vous n'arrivez pas à MàJ de la 22.1 Xia à là 22.2 Zara en raison de paquets impossibles à télécharger depuis le dépôt packages.linuxmint.com ?

💡 Lisez-ceci : https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2683237

⛔ C'est dû à un votre #FAI, si celui-ci est #Orange / #Sosh. Ce dernier semble avoir un problème de routage vers packages.linuxmint.com. Dans la discussion susmentionnée, passer par un #VPN semble contourner le problème, ce que je confirme 🥳

#️⃣ #OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #LinuxMint

Yet another way to collect data, track, target those against genocide......
- ExpressVPN
- CyberGhost
- Private Internet
- Access (PIA)
- ZenMate
- Hotspot Shield
- Betternet
- Touch VPN

PS. expressVPN was always under the hands of Israeli intelligence.

#VPN #Israel #Genocide #Media #Politics #Security #Spying #Genocide #Information #Internet
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com

🔥 Vous utilisez #Linux Mint et vous n'arrivez pas à MàJ de la 22.1 Xia à là 22.2 Zara en raison de paquets impossibles à télécharger depuis le dépôt packages.linuxmint.com ?

💡 Lisez-ceci : https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2683237

⛔ C'est dû à un votre #FAI, si celui-ci est #Orange / #Sosh. Ce dernier semble avoir un problème de routage vers packages.linuxmint.com. Dans la discussion susmentionnée, passer par un #VPN semble contourner le problème, ce que je confirme 🥳

#️⃣ #OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #LinuxMint

Yet another way to collect data, track, target those against genocide......
- ExpressVPN
- CyberGhost
- Private Internet
- Access (PIA)
- ZenMate
- Hotspot Shield
- Betternet
- Touch VPN

PS. expressVPN was always under the hands of Israeli intelligence.

#VPN #Israel #Genocide #Media #Politics #Security #Spying #Genocide #Information #Internet
@palestine@lemmy.ml
@palestine@fedibird.com

The new VPN from Tor is pretty interesting.

Still in beta so it may not actually be production ready yet, but its got some very exciting features.

Each app gets its own separate tor circuit, or can be excluded from the VPN.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.vpn

@torproject

#Android #VPN #Tor #privacy #cybersecurity

The new VPN from Tor is pretty interesting.

Still in beta so it may not actually be production ready yet, but its got some very exciting features.

Each app gets its own separate tor circuit, or can be excluded from the VPN.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.vpn

@torproject

#Android #VPN #Tor #privacy #cybersecurity

VPNs must not face the chop 🚫

Next week the UK House of Lords will debate whether VPNs undermine the Online Safety Act.

Banning or blocking VPNs will shatter security, privacy and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable.

Read our briefing ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #VPN #VPNs #privacy #cybersecurity #freespeech #ukpolitics #ukpol #ageverification