I can see posts from other instances but all content hosted on blahaj.zone like media won’t load. That includes images videos etc.

Yeah there’s VPNs, but it’s a constant game of cat and mouse to find one that works. They use deep packet inspection to analyse internet traffic and scramble anything that resembles a VPN.

I even tried renting a server and running OpenVPN on it to have my own VPN server, but that started getting scrambled in the first week of use.

Sucks subscribing to a VPN then finding out it doesn’t work like a week later, which has happened to me more times than I can count.

I do not feel seen. :(

Some of us have fantasies of being fed on by vampires. Not every companion has to be suited to your tastes but as a morally questionable charlatan sneaking and stealing my way through the campaign Astarion is an absolute delight of a sidekick. He can feed on me all he wants. 😘

I love this delusion. Drama. Theatrics. Conspiracies. It’s giving e n t e r t a i n m e n t.

Not just bards. I do this with my sorcerer who has musical instrument proficiency 😆.

Not blocked on the DNS level. I have tried to use a DNS other than my ISP’s. They even go out of their way and use DPI (deep packet inspection) to scramble all internet traffic that resembles VoIP (which is banned here) and VPNs.

It’s a constant game of cat and mouse with VPNs to find one that works only for it to be scrambled/blocked shortly after subscribing to it. :(

I’ve even tried renting a server, installing CentOS and running OpenVPN but that got identified and scrambled like 5 days into running that server.

I can see posts from other instances but all content hosted on blahaj.zone like media won’t load. That includes images videos etc.

Y’all are teasing :(.

What do you mean? Just install the plug-in PWAs for Firefox. I have a Firefox based WhatsApp PWA that runs separate from my main Firefox process. It launches on its own and uses the WhatsApp icon on the taskbar. (I was having so many issues with the official WhatsApp app).

It does have a dependency on a package you’ll have to install outside of FF but you can install it using Chocolatey so it’s pretty quick and easy.

Ooo thanks for the heads up!

Tor does not work unless first wrapped by a VPN, but few VPNs work to begin with.

I can see posts and the text in a post using this lemmy.world account, but content hosted on lemmy.blahaj.zone like images/videos/memes won’t load.

The OpenVPN project was many years ago on CentOS, I haven’t dabbled in Linux distros for many years now and have no idea what distro would be ideal this kind of project today.

Duly noted about WireGuard! If they have a windows client that supports split tunnelling then I am definitely going to try AWS + WireGuard. Will look into it when I’m home.

Thank you for the advice!

Thank you for the detailed response! Tor only works when wrapped by a VPN first, but as I stated ones that work are hard to come by.

I admittedly haven’t tried SSH/SOCKS because my primary need for VPN is for unblocking VoIP like discord and I’m not sure how to do that unless I route all traffic through that proxy, but that’s likely to get picked up by DPI and scrambled.

Bit smuggler looks super interesting 👀. I’ll have to look into it.

The only thing I’ve managed to get to work consistently is ExitLag ironically. I’ve been paying for it for years. I think whatever form of VPN they’re using with their whole dual route system manages to evade DPI better than any paid or DIY approach I’ve tried over the years and is stable enough to stream YouTube at high bit rates. I think the fact that they don’t even advertise themselves as a VPN has also helped them.

Yeah I def understand that my DNS activity is probably feeding their black list, but in the case of blahaj.zone I think the domain was auto blacklisted for containing too many trigger words like LGBTQ, trans, etc. It’s too small of a site to have been manually blacklisted imo. Especially when lemmynsfw.com remains unblocked.

Thank you for raising this issue!!

Quality posts > Post quantity.

Most of your posts are tired and low effort.

What’s ICJ?

I still can’t visit the site nor login to my blahaj account via Memmy.

Agreed! Although it still sucks to have to VPN just to look at 196 memes :sadpepe:

I have not, but those are some neat resources you shared that warrant looking into 👀. Thank you!