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My friend fails in digital migration (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sundaymidnight@lemmy.world to c/venting@lemmy.ml

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This guy was really traumatized by a mod (--easy ban--, a tyranic otaku who enjoys the extreme control in the small bubble that is this website).

My friend was whining frequently... I intended to help. I create an account and said: "the mod will trust if use it for one month". But my idea needs that he uses a VPN for masking his IP (his country, unfortunately he is the unique user from his country and mod bans immediatelly). VPNs turn off while he navigates and show his location... then, it is not successful.

Other persons were before mod: "please, forgive him... he is a good guy". But mod says: "he surpassed all of limits and is no more welcome". Really, he was banned and created new account, offending to mod. It's all of his wrong doing: be angry for an injustice.

My friend said: "so much problem for this fckng site... better I pass off it". And I invited him and others to my new little tree house, recently created (for them). But no one came. It's really weird way of people whining and after not doing a thing so simple to resolve it.

NOTE: I didn't have a real need of tree house, I made it for them

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some VPN browsers have builtin security, so they don't work without VPN. Some VPN providers, eg. Surfshark, have HTTPS proxy services running on most of their servers, so you can set your browser to those and your IP would be masked even when the VPN is off. Additionally, you can set up routes in your OS before you start a VPN, so it will only allow packages to the VPN server. The VPN adds its own routing, when it's on. If it's turned off, the previous routes will prevent anything but turning it on again.

Alternatively, you can configure routes so the sites IPs will only ever be routed through the VPN, even if it's off. If it is off, it will result in a routing error and only this site can't be reached until it's on again.