Comment by berdario

"defeated", yes

"easily", not so much...

As in, services can still detect if you're connecting through a VPN, and if you ever connect directly (because you forgot to enable the VPN), your real location might be detected. And the consequences there might not be "having to refresh the page with the VPN enabled", but instead: "find the whole organisation/project blocked, because of the connection of one contributor"

This is why Comaps is using codeberg, after its predecessor (before the fork) project got locked by GitHub

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

Moreover, this kind of stuff is also the reason I stopped accessing Imgur:

- if I try without VPN, imgur stops me, because of the UK's Online Safety Act

- if I try with my personal VPN, I get a 403 error every single time

I'm sure I could get around it by using a different service (e.g. Mullvad), but imgur is just not important enough for me to bother, so I just stopped accessing it altogether