[gpgn]

What pisses me off is that some legitimate websites like project goutenberg are all blocked by my Internet provider in Italy and I have to go through a VPN to access them. Same for scribd, vdoc, libgen and so on.

[mattrighetti]

Do yourself a favour and install AdGuardHome/PiHole in your LAN so that you don't have to connect to a VPN each time, that way DNS is going to work and return a valid response back to every single device that you own in the network.

[zinekeller]

No dice if you're a Vodafone customer, they run DPI so that they block specific IPs (or even specific domains if the IP is shared).

[linker3000]

I have two Plusnet Hub Ones at home being used as wireless access points. Both are flashed with OpenWrt and one has AdBlock installed; that one is the house's primary DNS server, with OpenDNS upstream.

Coupled with uBlock origin on all laptops and PCs, the online world is very ad-free.

If I bypass the blocking I am dismayed by how much ad crap there is out there.

[OJFord]

Not that I don't recommend something like that for other benefits, but GP could probably just switch their router or devices to use some non-ISP DNS - 1.1.1.1, 9.9.9.9, 8.8.8.8, whatever. It's not blocking specific DNS requests that will fix their immediate problem, it's not blocking them (by not using ISP's resolver).

[ikekkdcjkfke]

Isn't there a docker image one can spin up cheaply and not connect to dubious vpn provisers?

[ahepp]

why is Gutenberg blocked?

[layer8]

Alleged copyright infringement: https://torrentfreak.com/project-gutenberg-public-domain-lib...

[bonzini]

There was an accusation of copyright violation a few years ago, nowadays it's visible.

[Manjuuu]

Just change the dns.

[gpgn]

I'm too low-IQ to understand what this means.