Kuno XMR Fundraising Platform is Down - We need a fundraiser to get this on a proper hosting provider ASAP
Maybe ideally this should be decentralized, e.g. with 2 or 3 mirror sites. One could post/edit things using whichever instance, and it’ll be visible on every mirror, etc. Like, fail-safe redundancy?
Also, look into evaluating https://basedflare.com/# as an alternative to cloudflare.
Absolutely no idea.
A privacy-centric hosting company having in-house DDOS-protection would be ideal? This basedflare thing may be better than CF, though it feels exactly like CF for me an end user. Their error message is unhelpful too:
Verifying your connection to basedflare.com This process is automatic, please wait a moment… Error: Browser does not support WebAssembly.
A more-friendly error message would be: Use the “Standard” Security Level in Tor Browser; “Safer” “Safest” wouldn’t work for this. (Brave Search actually says something like that, nice to Tor users, though I seldom use Brave Search…)
I literally came across basedFlare yesterday so no direct experience with it, though that error looks like a typical cloudflare error.
as for wasm compatability, the tor security-slider takes care of that as you suggest.
Come to think of it, any CDN may have the same problem (MitM-ness etc). Not sure. Considering alternative options is good in general, though. What I hate about CF is indiscriminate Tor blocking. Tor is also used as a humanitarian tool, helping various vulnerable users (like those who live in an oppressive country with heavy Internet censorship). Blocking it is like collaborating with oppressive regimes.
> Blocking it is like collaborating with oppressive regimes.
Not like, it actually IS.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that CF operate quite a few Tor entries.
Any alternative is worth supporting.
(Deleted, because the link to post/1090829 may show an ad of this VPN, when seen from a remote instance.)
Sadly, it’s turned out that kuno.anne was not purely charitable; just a promotional tool for “brand awareness” of some sketchy VPN company. (See post/1090829)
This AriaVPN is sketchy, if not scammy: the salesperson is trying to bribe us to advertise it, without telling how good it is, what is different from other similar services, apparently assuming we’re happy to recommend whatever if paid. Avoid AriaVPN; it may be scam!
This company’s salesperson is rather clueless, saying, “Those fussy about suspected CF proxy logs can use VPN/Tor when accessing the site.” when the problem is indiscriminate Tor blocking (i.e. using Tor couldn’t be a solution; it’s a trigger of this anti-privacy discrimination). Being blocked by CF is just a common daily experience for any Tor users, even admitted by CF itself, yet this not-so-smart marketer thinks it’s something “paranoid” as in not really happening… If they had been less rude, I might have explained them that they’re losing potential customers by (unknowingly) blocking Tor users.
One practical problem of CF is, Tor users are randomly blocked even when the website admin doesn’t want to block them.
