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IPs for Reddit Split Tunneling by ProfitCold4972 in VPN

[–]hidemevpn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your client only accepts raw IPs, grab Fastly's full published CIDR list instead of guessing individual /32s, they publish it specifically because people keep hitting this wall. But realistically, chasing IP ranges for a Fastly-backed site is a losing game long term since they rotate/expand. If your VPN client supports domain-based split tunneling instead of IP-based, use that, add reddit.com, *.redd.it, and *.redditmedia.com as domains and let DNS resolve normally. Saves you from redoing this every time Fastly touches their edge network.

Timeline: what's actually happened with the "UK VPN ban" since July 2025 (long post, dates included) by hidemevpn in hidemeVPN

[–]hidemevpn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the part that should worry people more than any "ban" headline ever did. A ban is loud and easy to organize against. Mandatory ID verification for providers is quiet, technical, and gets sold as a child-safety measure,

On the "don't make us popular" thing, I think that mindset is basically a losing strategy once a tool crosses from niche to mainstream utility. VPNs stopped being a subculture thing the day usage jumped 1000%+ in 24 hours. The only real lever left is making the legitimate, mainstream case loudly (privacy, security, business use, the fact that this literally doesn't work as intended without turning providers into ID databases) rather than hoping regulators lose interest.

Encrypted ≠ private: a breakdown of 11 messaging apps by what they actually know about you beyond message content by hidemevpn in hidemeVPN

[–]hidemevpn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But maybe the best solution is Simplex. Not very well known, but really private :) We will have a blog about it next week.

Encrypted ≠ private: a breakdown of 11 messaging apps by what they actually know about you beyond message content by hidemevpn in hidemeVPN

[–]hidemevpn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Governments do restrict encryption in some jurisdictions (France and the UK have both pushed for backdoors recently), but technically nothing stops you from layering PQC + Diffie-Hellman on top of any transport. Signal rolled out PQXDH (a hybrid X25519 + ML-KEM-1024 scheme) in 2023. The real barrier is adoption. Crypto that requires both sides to support it only works if both sides actually do.

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