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polski-g on July 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules ki...

Netflix was blocking by endpoint IP? That is just a cat and mouse game. They should have been blocking if the MTU was not 1500 bytes.

immibis on July 29, 2025 [–]

Lots of real ISPs use tunnels.

azalemeth on July 30, 2025 | [–]

And lots of VPN companies explicitly change TTL and packet sizes to avoid these sorts of things

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