That's a bummer that CSAM is still being posted. I get that y'all need to stop the people posting it immediately, and I agree with whatever you need to do to make that happen. However, I hope you can find a solution later down the road that allows VPN users to continue fully interacting with the site.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Indeed. I don't use the Internet at all without a VPN connected. These days you can't possibly be blocking people for that reason. There are other ways to find child porn or whatever. Like calling the authorities.
I hope there's a useful error message, that could be very annoying to troubleshoot.
We did include a meaningful response body to help.
What do you mean when you say a "response body"? What is it ? Does it show anywhere in a browser ?
I image with how techy and fos lemmy tends to be, I'm sure there's a ton of people using VPNs, so a lot of people will probably run into that issue.
It'll come up in a curl or httpie request. All our WAF errors have meaningful returns, I make sure of it β€οΈ
I know Iβm late to the party here, but sadly there is nothing obvious if you are on a desktop browser. The only feedback you get is an endless spinning gear.
I just found this post from a search and Iβm sad I canβt connect with a VPN. :(
How detailed is .world's IP logging? I'm sure many privacy-minded users think that's important to know before disabling their VPNs.
Additionally, would it be possible to allow posts/comments that don't have any links or images? Or does even that introduce too much risk?
I realise that as individuals without the huge resources of a business your options are limited. I also have a lot of sympathy with the admins and mods being exposed to that shit. I don't know what the answer is but I don't think blanket silencing all users who care about their privacy is a solution.
The concern is valid but "You can't post from behind a VPN" and "I'm being silenced" are two very different things.
Opera browser (with data saving on) is now blocked since your (this one) change.
P.S. : this post should be pinned to the entire site (not only to this community).
Since lemmy.world is on cloudflare, a worker function could disallow images in comments (or POST to any of the routes that create content) from those IP ranges. I assume the driver here is CSAM and other problematic imagery.
We've looked into worker functions before for other things like routing on the edge (neat stuff). We're all DevOps folks, and love to get feedback from the community β€οΈ
The issue is even folks linking to images unfortunately. Yeah, it's mostly CSAM related, but also prevents other types of abuse as well.
I appreciate everyone being understanding, all of us try hard to keep everyone on LW (and folks we federate with) safe.
It is so annoying that lemmy.world politics community is not about world politics. Either make it not only-US or rename it to US politics.
Thatβs such a lazy and irresponsible stance to take. If I get blocked from commenting because I value my privacy, itβll be goodbye lemmy.world.