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A system that needs ID verification to access a site is a problem. What if it's used for other websites as well?
Then I won’t browse to them any more
Yeah, that could work; however, it would be a hassle. Just remember to save everything important locally.
One step ahead of you, I'm actively replacing all of my online accounts with self-hosted alternatives. My state passed both porn ID and social media ID laws, and I assume they'll try to add this to anything with age gates (e.g. streaming sites).
So I'm moving my stuff to my personal cloud:
All of this is available both over my self-hosted VPN, and over the internet with certain services exposed over my domain (all use LetsEncrypt certificates). So I can access whatever I want wherever I am. I do offsite backups with Backblaze B2 ($6/month/TB), and I sync important stuff to my phone w/ syncthing.
It's a bit of a pain, but there's no way my state can take any of that away from me. I'll be adding more services as I find time, and I've got a good system now where a new service only takes a few minutes to spin up. Basically, my setup process is:
docker compose up -d
(to build the new service) followed bydocker compose restart
to get Caddy to reload the configCaddy fetches the TLS certificates, and docker handles setting up the service. Unless I make a mistake. Since everything is in docker, I don't need any ports exposed except 80 and 443, which is managed by Caddy.
I wouldn't have bothered if Netflix had kept reasonable rates for ad-free watching, but here we are. And now my state is being a pain, so I'll probably configure my WIFI with a VPN out of state so I don't have to deal with the stupid ID verification crap.
This is fantastic. Hopefully, crazy politics will at least have a side effect of all of this self hosted software becoming easier. It's gotten to the point where companies like Hetzner will maintain nextcloud services for a monthly fee but Caddy is already more intuitive compared to what came before it.
Yup. I'm thinking of making a blog series or something about my setup. It's a little complex, but the individual pieces are pretty simple, so anyone with time and interest could totally replicate it. Mine would focus on Linux, but since everything is in containers, it could easily be replicated on Windows as well.
Oh, and I'm working from the worst possible setup, I'm behind CGNAT, so I have to go through an outside server to make my internal stuff public. A lot of people can just use their router IP instead, which eliminates the VPN entirely (just port forwards from your router).