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If I disable uBlock, Deezer loads just fine, despite NextDNS and Pi-Hole doing their thing. Anyone know how to troubleshoot or fix things?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For me it loads fine with uBlock, but they have started to implement some basic VPN-blocking apparently (or enabled whatever their CDN provider talked them into or whatever). A simple reconnect seems to do the trick with ProtonVPN however.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're trying way too hard?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, they are literally not. Blocking VPN users is literally the low effort thing to do because the rate of problematic attacks and similar high effort issues coming from those IPs is much higher than the few legitimate users using VPNs are worth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's like blocking IP addresses when most people have dynamic IPs. It looks like you're being hard on people and doing lots, but in reality, you're just harming innocent users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But that is the point. Most people do not use VPNs, you harm very few legitimate customers and save yourself the headache of dealing with all those who use VPNs for scams, attacks, exploits,...

The trade-off is entirely different from dynamic IPs.

Also, the admins running those things don't do stuff to look like they are doing things, they wouldn't care if you use a VPN if there was no downside to treating VPN IPs like any other.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I disagree, there's many legitimate reasons to run VPNs. Even if said users are few in number, they shouldn't be assumed to be dodgy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

is deezer a "justifiable" (or, in your words, legitimate) use of a vpn?

:/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

deezer prolly use 200 shit tons 3rd party services. so yeah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

then don't use deezer

[–] ReedReads 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Use the logger in uBO to figure out which rule is causing the problem.

If that doesn’t work, I’d just reset uBO to its default settings. It will work then.

Edit: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/The-logger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to bother you again, I don't suppose you know about things. It's looking like ||deezer.com^$removeparam=deferredFl would you happen to know what I need to add to where to bypass it?

[–] ReedReads 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure if you still need this addressed given the VPN comment above. But to nullify a single filter, you go into the My Filters pane and add this:

||deezer.com^$badfilter,removeparam=deferredFl

You can read more about it here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#badfilter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

You are my bloody hero. Thank you so much. Fuck, you're awesome!