Disable Gikopoi Firewall?

2024-09-13T15:36:14+00:00

Should I disable the Gikopoi firewall that keeps out (primarily) Tor
users? A lot of people have complained about this over the years;
largely I've felt that if people want to use Gikopoi, there should be
no problem in using their normal IP address and that there is no good
reason for using Tor -- no countries block gikopoi.com and information
is already encrypted via HTTPS if people are concerned about roommates
or government spying on them.

However, at the same time I acknowledge that there may be interesting
(yet mentally ill) people who will only use Tor or whatever sketchy
VPNs the firewall blocks that are not necessarily pedophiles/spammers.

If this experiment goes wrong, it only takes 2 seconds to turn the
firewall back on. So, I open this question up to the audience.

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2024-09-14T18:43:12+00:00

For now, it would probably be fine to just allow Tor exit nodes for the
regular domain and see how it goes. Should it not be sufficient, here
are some measures that can be taken to have pie and eat it too:

Although it would take some more time & work to configure, a Tor hidden
service would let ipadb run for the regular domain while letting in Tor
users via a loopback addr. That way, the onion addr could be left as a
secret that isn't too hard to find but discourages impatient trolls.
Maybe a link in an image on the wiki for a Tor article?
* disable ip bans for loopback addr
* raise max users on loopback to something like 6
* access toggle with fallback for trusted people

This probably wont be necessary, but it's perspective worthy of post.
Maybe we get some more traffic from behind great firewalls of cn/ru ^_^

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2024-09-15T14:15:26+00:00

The anti-abuse filter has been disabled as a limited experiment. The
second anyone abuses it, it's going back on.

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2024-09-16T02:32:08+00:00

Thank you. I use an ordinary paid VPN that gets blocked by the filter.
The filter that Gikopoi uses seems extremely aggressive, far more so
than most of the rest of the web. Not even e-commerce or online banking
sites block it ^^;

I can only speak for myself, but I don't really want random website
owners/moderators knowing my precise IRL location - especially on the
imageboard/anonymous BBS-adjacent side of the web, where websites are
often ran/moderated by less-than-stable individuals (and I say that as
someone who runs/moderates those types of sites myself XD)

It may be possible on the VPN to whitelist sites on a site-by-site basis
(I've never tried and not particularly willing), but I'd never disable
it entirely because I browse/use more than 1 website/service at once
(ZOMG TABS)

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2024-10-29T19:23:37+00:00

for those that don't already know, the tor ban has been reinstated after
spammers abused in the game. i can't shake the unfounded feeling this
has something to do with recent harassment of tor relay operators. the
attacker is port scanning honeypots with spoofed source addresses of the
relays to get abuse reports sent.

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/analysis/-/issues/85

concerted effort to get tor banned everywhere? who's to say.

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2024-10-30T22:46:09+00:00

weird, cuz gikopoi works only with JS turned ON.
And normies in tor don't want it.
>(yet mentally ill)
don't automatically assume everyone else is diagnosed with same stuff as you.
in the era of mass survelliance (IDK HOW TO SPELL IT CORRECTLY ! SIC , me being retarted) , wars, oppression, geo locks ... many people flow towards tunnels / anonymity / privacy