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Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability

From Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability
Date 2014-04-16 17:52 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <limg1m$6a9$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <5825#0@usenet.squte.com> <20140416111042.4497e6f0.rsw@therandymon.com> <5825#24249@usenet.squte.com> <lim1f7$kbs$1@solani.org>

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On 2014-04-16, RS Wood wrote:
> On 2014-04-16, tdk <forum.tdk@squte.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm absolutely unable to get to the Pando website 
>>
>> Works for me. Maybe your IP or country is blocked? Does it work
>> through a proxy?  http://hidemyass.com/ 
>>
>
> I'll give it a try.  Blocking IP addresses by geographical region is the
> stupidest idea ever for most stuff.  From here in Senegal I can't even
> get onto the Netflix webpage for example.  So much for buying mom and
> dad a subscription for Xmas.  F.U. Netflix! 
>
> That's the best name ever for a VPN provider, by the way.

+1

> I'm also looking at flashrouters.com (I think that's the URL).  They
> sell routers with opensource VPN software on it so I can extend a VPN
> connection to the rest of my household.

It looks like they just flash open source firmware and resell them.
Why not do it yourself?  Flashing a router's firmware takes < 10
minutes.

I use DD-WRT everywhere, and love it.  It gives you all the
functionality you could ever want, and it's super easy to use
(unlike most stock firmware).  Setting up a VPN couldn't be easier.

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[OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-15 16:57 -0500
  Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 11:10 +0000
    Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-16 07:04 -0500
      Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-16 13:44 +0000
        Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-16 17:52 +0000
        Re: [OT] Dark Patterns: Designing for anti-usability Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-17 09:51 +0000

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