• @njordomirOPEnglish
      14•10 months ago

      Originally, I was just planning on being mildly infuriated, but thank you for the in-depth explanation. Networking is my weakest nerd-stat and its truly interesting. I’ll try a few other servers and see if they are blocked. My VPN provider is known for privacy, so it wouldn’t surprise me if someone is doing sketchy things on there. Then again, it’s only a mild annoyance and an irony since Consumer Reports have reviewed the same provider I have been using.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•10 months ago

        It’s ironic but makes complete sense if we’re assuming they blocked the VPN server IP.

        Say I’m a malicious user who’s using VPN server #22 from ProtonVPN (my personal favorite provider). The victim (CR in this case) isn’t going to see they’re being attacked by someone on VPN server #22 from ProtonVPN, they’re going to see the IP of that server and nothing else.

        It really doesn’t matter if they did have that information because no human will be involved. The traffic will be marked as malicious and blocked by some software designed to monitor, identify, and block traffic that looks malicious. This is almost always done based on IP. It’s usually reversed in a few days though because IP addresses change frequently, so there’s no sense in continuing to block traffic from an IP you can’t guarantee belongs to the original attacker.

    • @asdfasdfasdfEnglish
      1•10 months ago

      Couldn’t there be some alternative like having VPNs provide a standardized API for websites to report bots from using anonymized data take from the HTTP requests? Then the VPN can block the user after reviewing the usage data they have.

      • RedevenEnglish
        3•10 months ago

        That would require the VPN service to keep track of users’ usage and be able to match traffic to user, which most (or most of the big ones at least) very specifically, very on purpose, explicitly say they don’t do, which would be really bad for them if it turned out to be false.

          • setVeryLoud(true);English
            2•10 months ago

            Because I just close Firefox and move on to another app, I don’t see tabs like on the desktop version and they don’t close when the app closes, so they stay open perpetually until I close them manually.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•10 months ago

                  Sure, if I do the same search and click on the same link again. Or I could type “lasa” and tap the button to switch to the tab with the lasagne recipe I have open.

                • ladEnglish
                  1•10 months ago

                  Finding them again may be a hard task.

                  I keep tabs open because I hope to finish reading them, sometimes I even do

    • @njordomirOPEnglish
      5•10 months ago

      I’m guessing you’re not logged in. The landing page works, but the members area, where the full ratings are, will show the above screen when I’m on VPN.

      • wander1236English
        13•10 months ago

        You might be using an endpoint that people have used for attacks recently. I think all of the website protection tools have some sort of temporary IP blocking mechanism.

  • @SyntheadEnglish
    17•10 months ago

    Nice to see Firefox in the wild 🙃

    • @[email protected]English
      7•10 months ago

      We’re on lemmy/kbin, Firefox and its forks are probably the most common browser here.

    • @njordomirOPEnglish
      6•10 months ago

      I knew this comment was coming. :) FF Crew Represent!

      • ZagorathEnglish
        9•10 months ago

        On Chromium-based browsers, after 99, you get “:D”.

      • @njordomirOPEnglish
        6•10 months ago

        That’s right, Chrome had the smiley before I deleted it from my phone. FF uses the infinity sign. Thanks for catching that.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•10 months ago

      Dunno about op, but for me: various self-hosted interfaces, info for projects in-progress (easily 5-10/project), a few different forums I frequent, interesting stuff I don’t have time for now but will return to when I do.

      Bookmarks get lost/forgotten as I don’t make a point to view them to remember them. Open tabs remind me of their contents every time I switch tabs so I’m much morr likely to return to them. I’m also lazy and don’t want to re-open the same sites I frequent nearly daily.

      Currently only have 21 open, but that’s been much larger.

    • @njordomirOPEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      That’s pretty good for me. Usually I have the smiley face and just mass delete my tabs every time I flash my device.