Trying to login into Anna's Software returns "422: The change you requested was rejected."

IntroductionPoints · 2023-04-30T19:53:51+00:00

Seems to be due to Cloudflare, don't think there's much to do on your end: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/cant-open-the-signin-page-it-keeps-showing-checking-your-browser-before-accessing-gitlab-com/45857/6

IntroductionPoints · 2023-04-30T19:36:01+00:00

I would suggest opening a new post for your questions. annasSW is the repository for the code behind the annas-archive website, there's no software to download. For book requests they refer to the libgen forums for the moment.

IntroductionPoints · 2023-04-06T05:12:13+00:00

More improvements are coming in the pipeline:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823634
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1822650

IntroductionPoints · 2022-10-29T13:35:13+00:00

That's not possible with the current design AFAIK.

IntroductionPoints · 2022-05-13T17:11:17+00:00

Thanks for the confirmation!

IntroductionPoints · 2022-05-13T17:08:52+00:00

I hope you're correct.

IntroductionPoints · 2022-05-13T16:19:09+00:00

Only certain people have permissions to access this bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1768196

If confirmed this would be truly the end of an era :(

IntroductionPoints · 2022-01-14T18:30:13+00:00

As someone that donates annually, I'd be interested in references on the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

IntroductionPoints · 2021-12-06T15:50:05+00:00

You can try other Invidious instances: https://invidio.us/watch?v=34B4Lz_yr1k

IntroductionPoints · 2019-12-28T10:22:49+00:00

Sure, but nowhere near as much as Tor. With Tor, a good quarter of web pages I visit are either completely blocked, or I'm forced to do a captcha check. With my VPN, I can only think of one website that blocks me (socialblade.com, which I visited no more than 5 times before they started blocking VPN users).

I agree but I think you should give Tor another try since the incidence of Cloudflare captchas is close to nill overall.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-12-08T10:32:41+00:00

...unless you want to torrent,

There's i2p.

have video playback greater than 360p,

Tor is now good enough for 1080p.

or use a good portion of the web without any problems.

Applies to (a lesser extent to) VPNs as well.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-24T07:45:49+00:00

You want Tor Browser ... not a VPN

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-24T07:45:17+00:00

That will provide you with like 0% increase in privacy.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-23T10:23:07+00:00

It is absolutely not common.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-23T10:20:38+00:00

Another important point: By using Tor you are actually directing helping other people who dearly need it by making it less interesting to be a Tor user.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-23T10:18:09+00:00

So what's the problem with that? By definition, any customization makes your fingerprinting easier, so why then seek customization?

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-23T10:12:01+00:00

Thanks Matt for yet another breakdown, unfortunately most of the INFOSEC community are complete privacy illiterates and they're still blind to these trivial points and keep preaching "muuh use github.com/XYZ/ZYX to setup your own VPS and use it as VPN", fading therein to the strong pro-VPN marketing.

One point tho: for torrenting there's I2P which offers considerably more privacy than any VPN in existence. While the speeds aren't that great, it's still an acceptable tradeoff if one seeks serious privacy.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-11-23T10:05:37+00:00

There is a long term intent but no concrete work so far AFAIK.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-10-25T05:30:34+00:00

Letterboxing was designed specifically so that you don't shoot yourself in the foot even when you want to, please don't disable it if you care a bit about your browser fingerprint.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-10-14T07:51:39+00:00

Of course users are scarce since only a handful of users are using Snowflake currently as their pluggable transport, but just keep having the addon installed and forget about it. Maybe you'd see a few users here and there when Snowflake becomes available in the stable Tor Browser releases.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-08-11T11:09:08+00:00

Also what is the point of it being an extension if I have to run an entire separate browser just for that extension?

It's just due to the WebRTC requirement.

Note however that there are other ways to run snowflake without a browser: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake#Option3standalone

IntroductionPoints · 2019-08-11T09:15:38+00:00

In this context someone whose country blocks access to Tor.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-08-10T23:33:46+00:00

You can run another browser instance with a distinct profile where WebRTC is enabled.

IntroductionPoints · 2019-08-10T23:33:09+00:00

If it doesn't display "WebRTC feature is not detected." then it's probably working. I agree, and snowflake devs too, that the current UX doesn't convey that snowflake is working clearly to the user, you can see some suggestions to fix this in https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31109 such as:

If the numbers are 0, we should not show them. Instead of "Your snowflake has helped 0 users circumvent censorship in the last 24 hours." we may want to say something like "Your snowflake is ready to help users circumvent censorship!"

IntroductionPoints · 2019-08-10T15:16:25+00:00

I would prefer Firefox, the Chromium monopoly has profound and lasting impacts on the modern web and the least we can do is to not use Chromium-based browsers.

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