[as1mov]

Yeah, the community run TCRF wiki is banning VPNs just so they can mine your data along with the luxurious $400/mo they're getting from Patreon. And not because they're constantly being besieged by rampant bots that they have to resort to such drastic measures.

[retired]

I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me. I do see trackers from multiple big corporations on tcrf.net.

What bots are using Apple Private Relay?

[Xkeeper]

This is fascinating to me, because you just said you can't see it, but also that there are "trackers from multiple big corporations". Can you tell me what those are?

I ask primarily because we explicitly don't use any trackers, to a degree I actually pride myself on running a website that doesn't contact anything else: https://mini.xkeeper.net/private/C58L77azpY.png

The sole exceptions are YouTube embeds, afaik. I even switched out the MediaWiki and CC badges to be local.

[retired]

On the “ Sorry, you are not allowed to access tcrf.net right now” page I get tracked by Google, YouTube and DoubleClick according to the report by Safari.

I also have 924 kilobyte of data stored on my device after visiting tcrf.net without any consent.

[Telaneo]

uBlock Origin shows nothing out of the ordinary but Youtube, Google and Doubleclick, so Google, Google and Google, and I assume all of those are due to the embed.

[Xkeeper]

If you mean the block page, yes, that's just the YouTube embed. You'll see the same results on any wiki page that has a YouTube embed for the same reason; it's not tracking or anything I have control over (other than outright not having YouTube embeds). But I think if anyone has concerns over that, they're better addressed at the local-user level by disabling all unauthorized iframes.

[MarioMan]

There are lightweight YouTube embeds like https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed. It’s lauded for faster page loads, but it likely has good privacy implications too since it basically just loads a thumbnail unless you click on it.

[retired]

Maybe don’t do YouTube embed if it’s just a flickering logo. Use a GIF for that.

I’m not disabling my VPN if a website with multiple trackers asks me to.

[Telaneo]

> I don’t know anything about TCRF or what they do as their website blocks me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cutting_Room_Floor_(websit...

[thenthenthen]

Funny it works for me while being on a vpns that gets blocked everywhere…

[calmworm]

Why not use a captcha or turnstile?