Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[♦️ King of Diamonds ♦️]

Welp- it finally happened.

I've been using a snazzy lil' custom .su (Soviet Union) domain for my personal, private email for years and years now- and when the war in Ukraine started my domain registrar announced they would be renewing .su and .ru domains- but no longer registering new ones (since they've been having alot of problems trying to find ways to pay RuCenter due to sanctions) so I thought I was safe for the time being.

However, yesterday I tried accessing my eMail and it became inaccessible- I was met with a display page saying "Access to this website is blocked by Plume". I had never heard of Plume and I sure as shit don't use them for my wifi or any of my hardware for said wifi, so I double checked the site by booting up a VPN and TOR over clearnet and it works perfectly fine that way (it also worked perfectly fine of my smartphone so long as I wasn't connected to my home wifi)- so I came to the conclusion it was my ISP blocking it for whatever dumbass reason.

I called up my ISP over the phone and they more or less told me there's nothing they can do if a .su website is blacklisted by Plume (which apparently is part of my 5g wifi setup) and told me to contact my domain registrar at that point.

TL;DR it appears American ISPs are starting to blacklist .su websites now lol

 

[Mister Uno]

Welp- it finally happened.

I've been using a snazzy lil' custom .su (Soviet Union) domain for my personal, private email for years and years now- and when the war in Ukraine started my domain registrar announced they would be renewing .su and .ru domains- but no longer registering new ones (since they've been having alot of problems trying to find ways to pay RuCenter due to sanctions) so I thought I was safe for the time being.

However, yesterday I tried accessing my eMail and it became inaccessible- I was met with a display page saying "Access to this website is blocked by Plume". I had never heard of Plume and I sure as shit don't use them for my wifi or any of my hardware for said wifi, so I double checked the site by booting up a VPN and TOR over clearnet and it works perfectly fine that way (it also worked perfectly fine of my smartphone so long as I wasn't connected to my home wifi)- so I came to the conclusion it was my ISP blocking it for whatever dumbass reason.

I called up my ISP over the phone and they more or less told me there's nothing they can do if a .su website is blacklisted by Plume (which apparently is part of my 5g wifi setup) and told me to contact my domain registrar at that point.

TL;DR it appears American ISPs are starting to blacklist .su websites now lol

Is your router is a Plume device? You can swap it out with your own, assuming what your ISP said is true. Work for a company that uses those things and it's not uncommon for people to use their own routers.

 

[Barry Williams]

If I remember right, Twitch embeds ads into the video stream. Consider using streamlink the same way you would use yt-dlp. There may be a browser addon that does the same, but I never bothered looking for one.

The browser extension TTV LOL Pro guts Twitch's ads pretty reliably. In my experience the ad will play for a few seconds and then hard cuts to the streamer I want to watch.

 

[khaine]

Welp- it finally happened.

I've been using a snazzy lil' custom .su (Soviet Union) domain for my personal, private email for years and years now- and when the war in Ukraine started my domain registrar announced they would be renewing .su and .ru domains- but no longer registering new ones (since they've been having alot of problems trying to find ways to pay RuCenter due to sanctions) so I thought I was safe for the time being.

However, yesterday I tried accessing my eMail and it became inaccessible- I was met with a display page saying "Access to this website is blocked by Plume". I had never heard of Plume and I sure as shit don't use them for my wifi or any of my hardware for said wifi, so I double checked the site by booting up a VPN and TOR over clearnet and it works perfectly fine that way (it also worked perfectly fine of my smartphone so long as I wasn't connected to my home wifi)- so I came to the conclusion it was my ISP blocking it for whatever dumbass reason.

I called up my ISP over the phone and they more or less told me there's nothing they can do if a .su website is blacklisted by Plume (which apparently is part of my 5g wifi setup) and told me to contact my domain registrar at that point.

TL;DR it appears American ISPs are starting to blacklist .su websites now lol

Try changing your dns to google or cloudflre. Most of these blocks are done using DNS.

 

[Fabio Socialist]

Every time I get lazy and watch an Invidious video in a browser instead of downloading it like God intended, sooner or later I remember why I am being punished for my sins. Sometimes the browser stutters, limps and stumbles, growing more retarded by the nanosecond until I'm forced to kill it. Sometimes it crashes in a glorious kamikaze suicide. Either way, I am reminded of the web and all its works. In those darker moments, I quietly weep and surrender to despair. But only for a moment. Then I go back to cheerfully wishing slow and painful deaths on everyone responsible for this vile and nonsensical state of affairs.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Google Translate incorrectly translated 白左 (báizuǒ) as "left handed", rather than "white left" -- another example of subtle "social engineering" to "normalize" "woke"?

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Speaking of Google, YouTube just got more retarded

 

[sweater_supremacy]

Speaking of Google, YouTube just got more retarded
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where does this garbage keep coming from? are these decisions coming from google itself or their parent company, alphabet, the one pushing this?

 

[teriyakiburns]

are these decisions coming from google itself or their parent company, alphabet, the one pushing this?

Of course it comes from Google. Alphabet only exists for accounting purposes.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I don't really like those "placeholder pages" that take a site's place after it's down. At best they're like "this domain is available!", and at worst it's ad-related BS.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

I don't really like those "placeholder pages" that take a site's place after it's down. At best they're like "this domain is available!", and at worst it's ad-related BS.

i agree with you in the sense that i think when they are bought up as just another way to advertise at people it's really annoying, but i think there is at least one exception, the nintendo placeholder that redirects you this image of wario when a page is missing was objectively funny:

 

[ToroidalBoat]

A new crappy "innovation" a number of sites with articles are using: endless scrolling articles with the URL and page title changing when you reach the next article. And if you close the tab and then reopen it to see the previous article you were just reading? Too bad, because now the next article after the one you were reading is at top.

 

[innocent jogger]

As pozzed and gay as MSM is, sometimes I like to browse the propaganda clickbait slums like CNN and Fox News. Just recently I noticed that Fox has started putting up a (supposedly free) paywall where you have to enter an email address before you can read any article.

I tried just entering "goatfucker@butt.cx" but then it asked me to go to the confirmation link that they sent (lol) to that email. Seriously? That's like someone telling me I need to show ID for a rotten banana peel I pulled out of a public trash can.

Get fucked, Faux News.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I don't really like those "placeholder pages" that take a site's place after it's down. At best they're like "this domain is available!", and at worst it's ad-related BS.

 

[snowdunes]

720p videos look lke 180p on youtube most of the time now and I fucking know it's not me "getting used to 4k/8k" because I've saved shit to my computer in the past and the playback and files on youtube are significantly crustier now than the copies of the same videos friends have downloaded a few years ago.

Resolutions have a minimum bitrate it must hit, before a lower resolution looks better, YouTube have cut down the bitrates since a few years back (maybe two, I think) to save bandwidth per user. If the video is 50 or 60 fps, this is painfully noticeable now. They even added back the old 1080p bitrate as a premium feature.

I blame indian smart phone users, Netflix (they cheated with resolutions, and got away with it because their customrs are niggers) and 60fps everything retards for this.

 

[Enig]

Resolutions have a minimum bitrate it must hit, before a lower resolution looks better, YouTube have cut down the bitrates since a few years back (maybe two, I think) to save bandwidth per user. If the video is 50 or 60 fps, this is painfully noticeable now. They even added back the old 1080p bitrate as a premium feature.

I blame indian smart phone users, Netflix (they cheated with resolutions, and got away with it because their customrs are niggers) and 60fps everything retards for this.

I also blame the ballooned maintenance costs stemming from having to run 198 quintillion kids media streams that only exist for southeast asians to launder cash, that alone probably explains the bitrate drop.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Resolutions have a minimum bitrate it must hit, before a lower resolution looks better, YouTube have cut down the bitrates since a few years back (maybe two, I think) to save bandwidth per user. If the video is 50 or 60 fps, this is painfully noticeable now. They even added back the old 1080p bitrate as a premium feature.

I blame indian smart phone users, Netflix (they cheated with resolutions, and got away with it because their customrs are niggers) and 60fps everything retards for this.

Some of this seems to be a browser problem. This is most noticeable on Rumble. The video will be blurry and writing illegible, but when I mouse over the toolbar/timeline it goes sharper. On youtube this can happen if I scroll while playing a low res video.


As for everything requiring phone or email, what's annoying is how they require them to be tied to other things. Usually another email or a phone number. I don't get it, and wonder what the point is.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

As for everything requiring phone or email, what's annoying is how they require them to be tied to other things. Usually another email or a phone number. I don't get it, and wonder what the point is.

Phone numbers are harder to acquire, so unmotivated people are more likely to reuse them, which lets you link accounts. Supposedly this is about security, but the people this is supposed to be defending against are precisely the people who would grab a lot of numbers for cheap - the real reason is tracking.

 

[cybertoaster]

Resolutions have a minimum bitrate it must hit, before a lower resolution looks better, YouTube have cut down the bitrates since a few years back (maybe two, I think) to save bandwidth per user. If the video is 50 or 60 fps, this is painfully noticeable now. They even added back the old 1080p bitrate as a premium feature.

Its literally so you'll pay for yt premium, they outright tell you you'll get actual 1080p only if you pay.

 

[Ava123]

I've observed a decline in the effectiveness of reverse image searching over the years. Recently, I came across a captivating fantasy battle image and attempted to identify the artist for more of their work. However, the results were inundated with wallpaper sites, social media posts, and individuals using it for DND campaigns without crediting the artist. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any mention of the original creator.