■ 🕑 1. Disable Gikopoi Firewall?
│  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. 
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│  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. 
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│  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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├─■ 🕑 2. 
│   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:
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│   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
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│   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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├─■ 🕑 3. 
│   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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├─■ 🕑 4. 
│   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 ^^;
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│   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)
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│   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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├─■ 🕑 5. 
│   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.
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│   https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/analysis/-/issues/85
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│   concerted effort to get tor banned everywhere? who's to say.
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└─■ 🕑 6. 
    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