Internet privacy vs CFF access

Windini

Windini

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Help?



I've been attempting to heed advice about basic internet privacy. I'm using Dissenter/Brave as often as possible; seems to work flawlessly.



Recently, I've started opening a "private window with Tor" through Dissenter - it's fine on most sites, but CFF is almost inaccessible. When I head to CFF, I get the jump through I'm a Human test... Bicycles & boats! Two pages of images image id'ing, then redirecting, then the home page. A click on log in - and i get the message "oops! your ip address has been banned!" This cycle goes on 3, 4, 5 (or more) times. After the 5th try, I usually give up & go elsewhere. Adding to the frustration is being finally able to log in, then suddenly finding I'm out again, with no way to reconnect w/o several more tries.



FWIW, I've never had to ID boats & bikes more than once for other forums I'm on.


I know Tor routes things through who-knows-which countries, and that no-one here has control over that. I also understand and applaud CFF filtering out the spam, scam, and bots! I just want to know if there's a way to signal CFF that Windini's computer is knocking n the door without having to boat & bicycle my way through 10 pages just to be told my ip address is a no-no. I tried putting a CFF exception in my browser settings for cookie retention; doesn't seem to help. I may well have done that wrong...



Any suggestions to streamline the log-in proces

Many thanks!


PS: just hit "post thread" and found that in the time it took to type the above, I'm banned again. grrr. This is copied/cut/pasted from earlier. I signed on w/o Tor just to post this; didn't seem to be any other way for now.
 
I use Nord VPN and USA servers. No problems here. Duck duck go browser when on Android too.
 
Yep, no prob on my phone (though I rarely come here via that route). Less private, I presume, but it works.
 
I've noticed that on my phone Nord seems to really slow things down for me on this site at times even with USA servers. seems to really get "hung" and sometimes never loads....
 
Windini said:
Yep, no prob on my phone (though I rarely come here via that route). Less private, I presume, but it works.
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Is your VPN on your phone too? That will encrypt your sessions so your phone company doesn't know what you are looking at. The real security risk on the phone is the phone itself. Android or Samsung might be key logging and you're not going to know.
 
Timfoilhat said:
Is your VPN on your phone too? That will encrypt your sessions so your phone company doesn't know what you are looking at. The real security risk on the phone is the phone itself. Android or Samsung might be key logging and you're not going to know.
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No; I'm surfin' bareback with the ol" Samsung...
 
vp9c said:
I've noticed that on my phone Nord seems to really slow things down for me on this site at times even with USA servers. seems to really get "hung" and sometimes never loads....
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Sometimes on my Mac as well, so I turn the VPN off because arguing with strangers is more important to me.

I just keep rehearsing to myself, “You gotta a warrant?"
 
vp9c said:
I've noticed that on my phone Nord seems to really slow things down for me on this site at times even with USA servers. seems to really get "hung" and sometimes never loads....
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Nord on old tablet using wifi...slow..
Nord on new top tier Samsung phone on wifi is fine. Same phone using Tmobile 5G with Nord hangs after a while. I think that's Tmobile getting pissy about my VPN and deprioritizing my data.
 
Tinfoil hat time🙈

I am for sure a luddite. Therefore I'm lucky to get phone, tablet, computer in general to do as I wish.

So in my mind it would merely take some owner, some ceo of an "alternate/anonymous" host to the net falling in line/pander to political rhetoric to render it obsolete for certain users...


It's free and open to all users UNLESS you disagree with their reality.
 
Nord here on an ipad pro. No problem.
 
Ultimately from the perspective of forum ownership it comes down to a balance between your privacy and the privacy of the foreign scammers and hackers that are attempting entry daily to gain access to the forum, your trust, and your $.

The same tools some of you use for anonymity are also used by nefarious types. We've had a couple folks get bit lately sending $ for something they'll likely never receive.

It really is what it is....
 
Timfoilhat said:
Nord on old tablet using wifi...slow..
Nord on new top tier Samsung phone on wifi is fine. Same phone using Tmobile 5G with Nord hangs after a while. I think that's Tmobile getting pissy about my VPN and deprioritizing my data.
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they definitely deprioritize VPN traffic.
 
Windini said:
Help?



I've been attempting to heed advice about basic internet privacy. I'm using Dissenter/Brave as often as possible; seems to work flawlessly.



Recently, I've started opening a "private window with Tor" through Dissenter - it's fine on most sites, but CFF is almost inaccessible. When I head to CFF, I get the jump through I'm a Human test... Bicycles & boats! Two pages of images image id'ing, then redirecting, then the home page. A click on log in - and i get the message "oops! your ip address has been banned!" This cycle goes on 3, 4, 5 (or more) times. After the 5th try, I usually give up & go elsewhere. Adding to the frustration is being finally able to log in, then suddenly finding I'm out again, with no way to reconnect w/o several more tries.



FWIW, I've never had to ID boats & bikes more than once for other forums I'm on.


I know Tor routes things through who-knows-which countries, and that no-one here has control over that. I also understand and applaud CFF filtering out the spam, scam, and bots! I just want to know if there's a way to signal CFF that Windini's computer is knocking n the door without having to boat & bicycle my way through 10 pages just to be told my ip address is a no-no. I tried putting a CFF exception in my browser settings for cookie retention; doesn't seem to help. I may well have done that wrong...



Any suggestions to streamline the log-in proces

Many thanks!


PS: just hit "post thread" and found that in the time it took to type the above, I'm banned again. grrr. This is copied/cut/pasted from earlier. I signed on w/o Tor just to post this; didn't seem to be any other way for now.
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Change your router's DNS settings to something that is not the ISP's. Say, 1.1.1.1. Use a VPN.
I think going beyond that is overkill for this site, imo.
 
Windini said:
Recently, I've started opening a "private window with Tor" through Dissenter
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The above
Windini said:
I just want to know if there's a way to signal CFF that Windini's computer is knocking n the door without having to boat & bicycle my way through 10 pages just to be told my ip address is a no-no.
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Isn’t comparable with the above
When you open a private browsing session, you are telling your computer specifically NOT TO store any cookies or logins (that’s what tells the site who you are) which means you’re gonna likely be logged out whenever your browser refreshes along with having to log in every time you open a new browser window.
The reason you’re getting the ip blocked message is a related but seperate issue, your vpn is routing your traffic to the website through (from) a prohibited zone, likely to be where spam/scammers are located. Some VPNs allow you to hard set the region or area your session ip originated from, some don’t. If yours does you could always try to find a non excluded (and I’m assuming you want outside of the US) country that they allow, set it to that, then you’ll still have to log in each time but shouldn’t get the ip prohibited message.
To be blunt about it, unless you’re planning on talking about partaking in illegal activities, if you’ve bought many guns in the past 30ish years, you’re likely already on “the list” so...it depends on how much aggravation your “privacy” is worth to you.
 
johnnyb said:
The above



Isn’t comparable with the above
When you open a private browsing session, you are telling your computer specifically NOT TO store any cookies or logins (that’s what tells the site who you are) which means you’re gonna likely be logged out whenever your browser refreshes along with having to log in every time you open a new browser window.
The reason you’re getting the ip blocked message is a related but seperate issue, your vpn is routing your traffic to the website through (from) a prohibited zone, likely to be where spam/scammers are located. Some VPNs allow you to hard set the region or area your session ip originated from, some don’t. If yours does you could always try to find a non excluded (and I’m assuming you want outside of the US) country that they allow, set it to that, then you’ll still have to log in each time but shouldn’t get the ip prohibited message.
To be blunt about it, unless you’re planning on talking about partaking in illegal activities, if you’ve bought many guns in the past 30ish years, you’re likely already on “the list” so...it depends on how much aggravation your “privacy” is worth to you.
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Ironic thing is, if you want to maintain your privacy, you want to use a US node. NSA doesn't collect inside the US. If it goes outside the US, though...
 
In addition to ExpressVPN, I use CCCleaner between most every web site, to keep cross site cookies away. Now when I search Adam & Eve, the thing I searched for doesn't show up when I check the radar at WRAL.
 
pinkbunny said:
Ironic thing is, if you want to maintain your privacy, you want to use a US node. NSA doesn't collect inside the US. If it goes outside the US, though...
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Yes, but the multiple hops across autonomous zones are going to make it neigh on impossible for them to trace it i real time.
 
MostWanted said:
In addition to ExpressVPN, I use CCCleaner between most every web site, to keep cross site cookies away. Now when I search Adam & Eve, the thing I searched for doesn't show up when I check the radar at WRAL.
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Don't trust CCleaner after that malware incident. They're tainted good. Pretty easy to manually clear history/cookies.
 
pinkbunny said:
Ironic thing is, if you want to maintain your privacy, you want to use a US node. NSA doesn't collect inside the US. If it goes outside the US, though...
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So, you really think the NSA is not collecting inside the US? Legit question...

Sent from my SM-N975U using Tapatalk
 
Timfoilhat said:
I use Nord VPN and USA servers. No problems here. Duck duck go browser when on Android too.
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I too use Nord. I can connect with the app, but a lot of videos won't show up or load. Aside: I can't connect at all to some financial institutions (ex: Bank of America) with Nord running.

I had no problem connecting when I was using PIA, but they are a US company and are not as secure from USG interference as Nord is.
 
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JT said:
I too use Nord. I can connect with the app, but a lot of videos won't show up or load. Aside: I can't connect at all to some financial institutions (ex: Bank of America) with Nord running.

I had no problem connecting when I was using PIA, but they are a US company and are not as secure from USG interference as Nord is.
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Yeah. With Nord on, no YouTube, banking with Chase, CapitolOne, or PNC and certain other things that come through a news feed won't open or play.
 
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