Nick Drage22h ago
sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈
a few weeks ago i spun up a scaleway in europe to use as an imgur proxy... it's still blocked from actually hitting imgur directly, but at least i can see forum embeds now.
it is of course also banned from reddit.
kinda missing the days of the internet not being like this.
Apr 4 at 12:30pmWeb
Show threadsleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈22h ago
i should figure out which ISPs in europe do lots of mass CGNAT and get a pi zero or something sat out there instead
Show threadsleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈22h ago
i'm pondering how cost-reduced and scaleable i could make something like this...

unsure. tls call-home similar to slackhq nebula, but ported to esp32?
drop a usd slot on the board for config file (ssid, p/w, callhome server, rate limits) and ... i think it could work out. essentially treat them as disposable at that point.

then i'd just need to write something to coordinate the esp32 devices. maybe report back http ok vs something-else back to the coordinating server so deviating endpoints can be pulled from the pool when they start showing higher error rates?
Show threadsleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈22h ago
it sounds like i'm reinventing vpn providers i guess. i'd want my use to be more limited in scope: think proxy pac for just certain endpoints where we know geoblocking is a thing.

but from the other perspective, maybe that itself creates a strange enough traffic pattern that defeats the purpose of the thing.
Show threadsleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈22h ago
i'm not going to overthink it for now, i can see forum embeds. that is "good enough".
Show threadVivi22h ago
@0x47df that isn't a bad idea, do these services make exceptions to their ip bans when they know there are tons of eyeballs behind an address?
Show threadsleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈22h ago
@vivithecanine you might get captcha'd more than usual, but the vibe seems to be 'yes'. ymmv, after all, the service is still free to do as they see fit.

i think the bigger thing is just not having an ip that sits in one of the many geo-ip databases as non-residential. a lot of the geo-ip providers will classify what type of connectivity the AS number is providing, ie are they an ISP for people/offices, or for robots/servers. some mark known proxies/vpn space.
so maybe the CGNAT side is irrelevant, but i wondered if it helps mask user-agent, locale, etc, by hiding among the noise it presumably generates with other traffics.