2026-07-21 09:02 UTC
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@dsilverz@catodon.rocks 2026-07-21 10:28
@Mojeek@mastodon.social very interesting independent tech, indeed. While trying to find an alternative to DDG and stumbling upon this post (thus, this means I wasn't using mojeek before), I tried it only to get a "you shall not pass". To me, this reeks of "Brazilian IPs autoblocking lists" as I often read webmasters alleging that "Brazilian IPs are often found among botnets/residential proxies", so firewalls often do a sweeping and discriminating block of Brazilian ASNs; since I'm Brazilian, my IP belongs to a Brazilian regional ISP, and I don't use VPN, I often get the unfiltered "Brazilians aren't welcome" automated response from international websites using unrevised blacklists so, yeah, very independent from you!