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On: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private n...

[jon__k]

I live in a town with 3 colleges in SC and regularly see breweries card people. I've never been carded, but anyone with a young face is an automatic.

[mark_edward → jon__k]

You're right, I'm generalizing unreasonably. But I think can say that this is a problem. I don't think it's a particularly lawless town.

Breweries and bars might be different too

On: Ask HN: "Creative" ways to handle abusive http tra...

[jon__k]

After using fail2ban in production I've noticed Chinese attackers will start using a massive amount of entire subnets, which eventually cause servers to crash with such long Iptable rulsets.

On: Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers...

[jon__k]

> the law does not allow automatic profiling of the user (Article 22)

GEO-IP is not a profile unless it is stored with additional data.

On: Why You Can't Just Block EU Visitors, EU Customers...

[jon__k]

Why are most companies (i.e. USAToday complying) when they have no market, interest, or presence in the EU?

On: GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users over d...

[jon__k]

Too late. It now redirects to http://www.usatoday.com with lots of cookie trackers.