Melody Fwygon

Hearing this sort of law go into effect just makes me sadly want to ban anyone from the UK from my small communities.

I’d hate to be forced to do it; but I certainly would immediately start swinging the hammer with IP range bans and banning anyone who is clearly professing to be from the UK.

Unfortunately the kind of laws they’re trying to pass do nothing to fix whatever problems they have Online; and are basically meaningless political posturing. I feel sorry for people in the UK and strongly recommend they start using VPNs; as it’s the only way to ensure they won’t get snared up in the ensuing waves of bans when compliance with the OSA law that they let get passed is mandatory

The shoe is clearly on the other foot. It’s not so easy to manage when politicians are allowed to get so uninformed that they go out of their way to pass bad laws.

That’s not third person; those are specific pronouns that Fwy uses personally.

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Fwy would recommend it; if you feel you can afford what they charge for their paid usage plan(s).

Fwy has used it for our own house; and it serves as the main DNS resolver for our PFSense box running in forwarding mode. Fwy is however transitioning to PFBlockerNG; and it’s own ability to block things via DNS locally; but will still be using NextDNS and probably Adguard’s DNS servers as backup/bootstrap resolvers once the plan Fwy has paid for is expired…assuming our house does not vote to keep NextDNS.

Either way; it’s only like about $25 a year if I recall correctly. Fwy doesn’t hate using NextDNS and it is a very good resolver; with lots of useful controls and portability as well as offering proper encrypted DNS service; which is invaluable on weird networks you may encounter when using cellular service or on the go via WiFi.

Seems like it’s time to start Geo-Blocking UK users. Ain’t nobody with an independent site got the time nor money to deal with the UK’s OSA laws.

Until this overbroad act is protested on the world stage; neither Brits themselves, nor their liberal leaders will prioritize repealing it. They’ll just shrug hopelessly and blame it on their Tories; much like Americans blame our own Republicans.

If you run a small community website and you have worries about this; make it felt. Countries that enact laws like this should be rebuffed; and their people excluded as much as is necessary to ensure full malicious compliance with those laws.

No, (f+(0.5*a))/b.

Aesthetics should never get as many points as functionality.

Further tip; Simple Login offers premium domains that aren’t listed and therefore have less negative reputation; as well as offering “Subdomains”.

I urge anyone who feels they can afford to pay for what SimpleLogin can offer to do so for those features; they’ve given me a pretty flexible subdomain which I use frequently. Wildcards are another helpful feature; particularly for subdomains; which allows you to “make up email addresses” on the fly and have them routed appropriately depending on whatever keywords you include.