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

In Avalon (2001), a woman spends her days immersed in an illegal, high stakes virtual reality game. Players can only exit the game by completing its missions, but some never return. Then she hears rumors of a hidden, more advanced level and she sets out to uncover its secrets.

#2000s #scifi #movies #videogames #virtualreality #dystopian #aesthetic #computer #terminal #userexperience #mamoruoshii #futurenoir

"Let me be crystal clear before we begin: I say all of the below with love for #thefediverse.. Deep, stubborn, open-source-loving, billionaire-eschewing love. I want the #OpenSocialWeb to win. But wanting it isn’t enough. If we want this thing to thrive we have to face the #userexperience sins head-on—and maybe even laugh at them a little along the way."
@tchambers
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

"Let me be crystal clear before we begin: I say all of the below with love for #thefediverse.. Deep, stubborn, open-source-loving, billionaire-eschewing love. I want the #OpenSocialWeb to win. But wanting it isn’t enough. If we want this thing to thrive we have to face the #userexperience sins head-on—and maybe even laugh at them a little along the way."
@tchambers
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

Ok, I just installed linux and the experience sucked. Everything worked at the first try, even in advance mode all was flawless.

This is not the experience I remember, where is the need to spend 4 hrs figuring how why the wifi card is not working, or trying 30 different configurations of X.

Now what I am suposse to do? Just use it? Where is the learning at the hard way?

#linux #technology #userexperience #computing