I’m Sarah. I’m a Brit who fled to Portugal on account of Brexit, increasing intolerance and the British weather. I like climbing (although I can’t do much any more for health reasons) and sailing. This is a Friendica account. Friendica is kinda like Facebook as Mastodon is kinda like Twitter, except they can talk to each other.
@Coskii @True “home taping is killing music”. They’ve been on the same short sighted, cutting their nose off to spite their face, thing for decades.
Every study shows that piracy increases demand for “legitimate” consumption too, but they will literally drive themselves into bankruptcy rather than have one single pirated copy in existence. Muppets.
@riley0 Your other comment hasn’t federated to my server so I can’t reply directly. Replying here instead.
Tailscale isn’t a VPN in the same way Nord is, where it directs all your traffic through an external server. Rather, it’s a system for creating a “tailnet” of all the machines you install it on. It creates a personal little clique.
For example, if installed on your phone and home PC, they can connect to each other anywhere in the world as if they are on the same network.
In addition, you can designate any machine in your tailnet as an “exit node”, and optionally route all your traffic through it. This way, when out and about on 4G/5G, you can appear to be coming from home.
Now I have machines in two countries. One happens to be the UK. By setting the AppleTV in the UK as my exit node, I look like I’m coming from my home ISP there. It’s resistant to VPN blocking precisely because it isn’t like Nord: it’s literally just my home IP address.
So iPlayer works, Netflix login sharing works, and all that good stuff, because everything looks to be coming from one site.
But that’s MY exit node, uniquely part of MY tailnet. If you don’t have a suitable exit node located, Tailscale won’t help you.
Now Tailscale has just partnered with a traditional VPN provider to give you public exit nodes, Nord-style, but that’s susceptible to the same sort of traffic analysis and blocking that they’re using to target Nord, AIUI.
Nord is still useful for torrenting, but for directly accessing geo restricted services, it seems to be losing the arms race.
So you may need to resort to torrenting.
@riley0 let me check via my Tailscale UK exit node …
… checked. Still works.
@Moonrise2473 VPN apps are supported as of TvOS 17. Tailscale is one of the first
@Moonrise2473 Tailscale is literally a VPN app.
@fu @Coskii @True If there is, then I am also unaware of it.