Not sure what this comment means. I'm in a poor eastern country and I use VPN to Netherlands to browse torrent trackers. Pretty sure my country is far more problematic than central EU, but for whatever reason my poor country protects US interests more than most of the EU

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My torrent program and prowlarr use a VPN. I don't bother using it for normal browsing.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 3 days ago

Now say the two things you just said in order

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I have it running at router level but to a local server (so Australian). My devices also have it on so I can quickly change location on whatever device I'm using too

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Wouldn't this be solved by using a DNS server your country as no control over?

But anyway PirateBay is not recommended anymore.

[–] Haquer@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Depends on how the country is doing it. If they are just flat out dropping traffic to the routes, changing DNS won't save you.

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 3 days ago

They would need to do DPI and drop the packet using its SNI. Websites, especially pirates ones, really need to implement ECH, this would prevent this.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Firefox private DNS and still it doesn't work for some reason.

[–] ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 3 days ago

If you are willing to tell the country I would be curious.

[–] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

As is tradition.

Traditiooooon! TRADITION!