This is Spain's descent into a totally totalitarian regime like China. Now it seems that the soccer league may also block the use of VPNs to prevent soccer piracy, thus screwing over all users, whether they watch soccer or not. Until now, when soccer matches were broadcast, many Cloudflare and other services stopped working because they were blocked, so in my case I was forced to use a VPN in order to use the internet because many things weren't working. Now they want to block VPNs as well, so if this happens while soccer matches are being broadcast, I won't be able to use the internet either. This is Spain, the innocent paying for the sins of the guilty, since I don't watch soccer and I'm not interested in it, just as I don't watch television or any bread and circuses sports like the NPCs. I'll keep you informed about the case because it's a flagrant violation of internet neutrality, which, although it was already happening, is getting worse and worse. View quoted note →

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Obviously soccer is big enough a drug yo make it the scapegoat for banning what they long wanted to ban. Look into v2ray, Hydraveil or a VPS tunnel. Or are they banning corporate VPN infrastructure as well?
So far, they haven't cared about screwing companies by blocking Cloudflare and other providers, so I guess they'll screw corporate VPNs too, but I'm waiting for them to make the announcement to give more details.
Since they want to block standard VPN protocols it is the time to get familiar with censorship circumvention tools that are used in heavily censored environments - x-ray core is where you get started.
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PixelBob 1 month ago
When I visited Spain I really enjoyed it. Beautiful country, Spanish people holding on to their traditions. Pitty about the socialist government fucking it all up.