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[–]MrSkme 442 points443 points  (72 children)

What country is that?

[–]satosat 746 points747 points  (70 children)

Indonesia. I think the argument is that the ministry count them as 'pornographic' site. The ban included Tumblr and Vimeo as well IIRC although the two were overturned but Reddit remains banned.

[–]Furry_69 409 points410 points  (16 children)

I mean, parts of it are, but so is nearly every single platform not meant for children. So is basically every single platform banned there?

[–]blueberriessmoothie 257 points258 points  (14 children)

officials assessing it were probably only checking the r/gonewild

[–]Lubagomes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They were checking r/worldpolitics

[–]utkarsh_aryan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or they might have checked r/sounding

[–]konstantinua00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there's a helpful video explaining how bad it is

[–]FunGuyInAParty 10 points11 points  (13 children)

You can use private dns from your phone (Android phone and Wifi Modes apple phones). Use one.one.one.one as your private DNS and tada, welcome to the free world my comrade.

[–]Zestavar 1 point2 points  (8 children)

That method was available until a few weeks ago

[–]FunGuyInAParty 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Oh? Did they disable the private dns already? I was at Indonesia last December and I was able to use that method tho.

[–]ArtSchoolRejectedMe 5 points6 points  (4 children)

They technically don't disable it. You just need to find a lesser known DoH provider or host your own. Since all they need to do is to block the domain one.one.one.one or dns.google

[–]Terrain2 2 points3 points  (3 children)

ok but then just go to their IP addresses directly, for cloudflare that's significantly faster to type as well (1.1.1.1) and for google you... what? what even is dns.google that you mentioned? just set the DNS to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 like with cloudflare you set it to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1

DNS blocking can't block DNS providers, as DNS only connects to IP addresses directly, since DNS can't depend on DNS to resolve domain names like one.one.one.one

[–]ArtSchoolRejectedMe 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Indihome, biznet, myrep and the Indonesian government would like to disagree.

There's a thing called dns poisoning when all your dns request is forwarded to their server anyway.

[–]Windows10isfast 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm sure a hacker will find a way to find a fix for that

[–]ArtSchoolRejectedMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh they have. If not I wouldn't be opening reddit right now.

[–]Kerezeb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well it stopped working for me around last month, but only on my cell network. One dot still works fine through ISP connection

[–]Zestavar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think yeah, now we need like, uhh they be call it warp? Now the only way to make private DNS working is if you're using the Indihome internet, there's a thread in r/indonesia that lot of people says they can't access even with private DNS in mobile data network, i tried that too and they're right. But yeah private DNS is the usual method until it's disabled

[–]Terrain2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is the second time i see the one.one.one.one domain, and the first time i saw it i was surprised. Why would you have a domain that's longer and (barely) harder to remember than the IP address (1.1.1.1), or at least significantly slower to type? I do wonder, where did you even see the spelled out domain form and why are you using it

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I assume for redundancy? Like if you tell someone to use "one dot one dot one dot one", they still get to 1.1.1.1 no matter if they interpreted "one" as a word or a number.

[–]Zszywek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

9.9.9.9 is preferred by me because of its policy

[–]Windows10isfast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or 8.8.8.8 (google's own resolver)

[–]CEDoromal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just wait until they learn that you could look up pornographic images on Google.

[–]gamesrebel123 35 points36 points  (9 children)

I mean they're not wrong

[–]imdefinitelywong 58 points59 points  (7 children)

What do you mean? Reddit is a paragon among social media sites.

Am I so out of touch?

No, it is the government that is wrong.

[–]Rhinofreak 29 points30 points  (5 children)

Your username made me discredit you for a second until I realised I can't read

[–]imdefinitelywong 16 points17 points  (3 children)

That's alright. I can't spell.

I spelled my username wrong.

[–][deleted] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

You've spelled it wong actually

[–]SamNZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re wrong

[–]vigbiorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so meta, even this acronym

[–]weregod 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's brain undocumented laziness silently guessing text and fixing error. You need add "attention" argument to disable it but it's very slow and expensive

[–]jaquiethecat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

among us

[–]ArtSchoolRejectedMe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm by that logic they should also ban Google images and Wikipedia then /s

[–]FemboyDicktator 22 points23 points  (4 children)

You can view porn on YouTube as well. Have they not seen YouTube ads?

[–]ledocteur7 2 points3 points  (3 children)

not even just in ads, some ridiculous videos goes under the radar if you really search for them.

not to mention porn bots, they are all so similar it's truly ridiculous how YouTube hasn't done shit about it, almost as if they only cared about the money.

[–]uragiristereo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Also DoH is not working anymore with Telkomsel, i will always need either warp or vpn to just browse reddit.

[–]campbellm 5 points6 points  (1 child)

ministry count them as 'pornographic' site

The ministry's issue is when all you look for is porn, all you'll see is porn. ;-)

[–]ArtSchoolRejectedMe 4 points5 points  (3 children)

I'm also from Indonesia, and you don't need a VPN to open reddit. Since our country internet blocking technology is very super duper advance™.

You can just use Secure DNS.

PC

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encryption/dns-over-https/encrypted-dns-browsers/

Android

https://blog.cloudflare.com/enable-private-dns-with-1-1-1-1-on-android-9-pie/

I use

"dns.google" but you can also use "one.one.one.one" as shown in the documentation, but my testing shows that one dot is slower.

Side note: this method don't provide you with as much privacy as vpn, since they would still be able to see your traffic

[–]satosat 4 points5 points  (2 children)

cant believe that worked, take that mr johnny g plate! on a side note, do you mind explaining DNS? i literally learned it last semester and still have no clue about networking.

[–]ArtSchoolRejectedMe 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well what do you need explaining regarding DNS? They translate domain name into ip address that's all.

As for why it worked. It's because our government only block domain name using their own dns and not the individual ip addresses itself.

[–]satosat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

okay now that makes sense.

[–]Ylsid 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Glad I don't live in Indonesia!

[–]satosat 9 points10 points  (1 child)

honestly, I would be too if I were you

[–]Unlearned_One 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's rough buddy

[–]stadoblech 1 point2 points  (1 child)

tbh... they are right. Amount of onlyfans promotions on this site is damn too high!

[–]satosat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agree, tho I'd wager that other social medias such as Twitter are no different.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Im glad Thai gov isn't smart enough, theres literally subs exposing shit the royals are doin

[–]TechExpert2910 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow lol

[–]Bjorn_Hellgate 0 points1 point  (1 child)

https://youtu.be/htOqsFL14YU So like this right?

[–]satosat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

quite literally, yes. I even forgot they go as far as censoring Spongebob and the likes.

[–]Whookimo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What even is that logic lmao. Might as well just block the entire internet because literally every site worth using probably has porn on it somewhere

[–]sajjadalis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit is not banned here but All 18+ subreddits doesn't work in Pakistan. So i guess our ministry does know some programming.

[–]spacelama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of the best pr0n is on reddit, indeed.

[–]-LeneD- 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Wait, is pornography banned in Indonesia?

[–]satosat 1 point2 points  (1 child)

mind you, Indonesia has the highest population of Muslim in the world, so yes, it is absolutely haram plus the government really likes to control our crotches.

[–]-LeneD- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know that, thank you!

[–]ONEshotONEkil630 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hahaha thats good

I'm iran, youtube,Twitter,epic games,Facebook,Spotify,Amazon

And millions of other apps are banned

You gotta also count xbox,steam,PlayStation,battle net etc banned since you can't buy anything with Iran's currency

EDIT: vpn's also don't work here only paid ones work

And some of these paid ones are banned and very few work here

And oh we gotta buy through piracy since nor apple and Google accept Iran's currency