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Sure enough, the .zip TLD is just being used for malicious activity

There are far more robust methods of fingerprinting to spy on users anyway (adding up all the details of screen size, available fonts, language, os, etc, etc), so I don’t think removing the user agent would have much impact in reducing fingerprinting alone. It’s also useful as a quick and simple way to check the type of device, os, or browser the user is on and serve the correct content (download link for one’s OS) or block troublesome clients (broken bots)

It’s refreshing being on Lemmy and being able to see a good discussion on vps with (unlike reddit) no bot comment spam and no users engaging in paid shilling.

Doesn’t matter that much. Personally I’d just go with virtualbox because it’s open source.

True with Bitcoin. Not with Monero if I understand correctly.

This reminds me of the “cylinder” post from askreddit

The poneytelecom IPs would just constantly remain connected to me without actually downloading or uploading anything, which is quite unusual because torrent clients normally are supposed to disconnect from peers that they have no use for. And there would be like 15-30 IPs doing the same thing on the same few torrents. They were using Deluge, a legitimate client, which is quite weird, so maybe their shit was just misconfigured accidentally somehow. I looked up one of them on iknowwhatyoudownload.com and it was active on thosands of random torrents (including lots of CP apparently). I also recall in the past another IP from that range repeatedly downloading the same 80 GiB torrent which I am the only seed on, wasting my bandwidth for no apparent reason. So I just banned the entire IP range since clearly it’s not doing anything legitimate to me and is just acting strangely in all sorts of ways. It’s sort of a mini DDoS attack (intentionally or not) since I have my qBittorrent configured with a max number of connections.

The Xunlei IPs aren’t really attackers per se, but the client doesn’t follow the BitTorrent protocol standard and seeding to them is useless since they are incapable of seeding to other people. Some people just ban China entirely but I can’t do that because there are lots of legitimate Chinese users on the torrents I have and I don’t want to cut them off over something other people do

I’ve found that the block lists on the net tend to contain extremely outdated information and blocks a lot of legitimate activity, while ultimately being ineffective at actually blocking copyright trolls sufficiently. Best to have a vpn to prevent that. Since I have a vpn, I don’t care who downloads from me so long as they aren’t abusing my resources. So I manually create a blocklist for IP blocks I’ve observed malicious activity from. The blocklist file syntax is a note and an IP or IP range (not cidr notation) on each line, separated by a colon. for example, to block 195.154.0.0/16:

Poneytelecom:195.154.0.0-195.154.255.255

(That’s an IP range I actually block, belonging to poneytelecom, a very low reputation hosting provider I was getting some weird denial of service looking activity, like 40+ simultaneous connections who wouldn’t actually download anything)

Also, if you download torrents popular in China you may come across the Xunlei client, which always reports its progress as 0% and never seeds. Banning these would be impractical game of whack a mole. So instead, simply enable super seeding mode on those torrents. Gone instantly. Might be slower at seeding, but at least now you can seed to legitimate users.

Why the fuck are ads even profitable? Seriously? Who actually sees an ad and thinks “I’m going to buy this product”? When I see an ad I think “fuck you” and I’m less likely to buy their product.

Please do not. Although I don’t personally want to see lolicon stuff, many of the servers willing to host it have communities I want to interact with. For instance, burggit.moe is where the touhou communities went and is otherwise a pretty nice instance aside from loli communities.

It is content which, while understandably offensive to some, harms nobody. All fictional porn, no matter how deviant it is, is ultimately more ethical than real porn can be.

It should be up to users to block or hide instances with content they don’t wish to see, and defederation should be reserved for communities that consistently cause interference, not for communities that simply have content which one disagrees with.

You can get a list if you export a copy of your data with the gdpr export thing

They can block other ads, but they can’t block YouTube ads since YouTube ads come from the same domains as the videos.

Fmhy. For one thing, most of my reddit usage was related to Linux, datahoarding, self hosting, and torrenting. So coming here is the natural choice. The great thing about us pirates is that we aren’t hated by very many people (and therefore aren’t banned by the big instances), aren’t generally extremists, and yet strongly support free speech. In fact, one of the only major instances to allow nsfw content at all and to not defederate a whole bunch of instances for no apparent reason

mpd/ncmpcpp on desktop. Handles an absolutely massive music collection and very large music queue flawlessly.

Vinyl Music Player on Android. It’s not perfect but it gets the job done