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.
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.
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.
(Deleted, because the link to post/1090829 may show an ad of this VPN, when seen from a remote instance.)