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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't you just use a VPN to get past a content block? Sounds exactly like a project a 14 year old me would research

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Teaching the youth to protect their Internet identity feels like a win.

[–] TheMightyCanuck 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How'd you get your user name like that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can update your display name on your instance website.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps, but most of the good ones are paid, and I would try to set up some way to monitor the internet traffic if I really wanted to go that far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I self-host on a VPS, but also spoof the client hello of another website so it looks like I'm accessing yahoo.com or something

You would have to actually reverse lookup each IP to realize "hey, that's not a yahoo.com IP"