Are you logged in? The block is usually for logged out users.

Have you tried old.reddit.com ? I use that exclusively and it doesn’t seem to mind vpns.

> You have one server in one datacenter.

It doesn't have to be only one server in one datacenter though.

It's more work, but you can have replicas ready to go at other Hetzner DCs (they offer bare metal at 3 locations in 2 different countries) or at other cheaper providers like OVH. Two or three $160 servers is still cheaper than what they're paying right now.

It doesn't have to be one server in a single datacenter, though. It adds some complexity, but you could have a backup server ready to go at a different cheap provider (Hetzner and OVH, for example) and still save a lot.

That uses a workaround based on WiFi debugging even though it's all local. It doesn't run if you're not connected to a trusted WiFi network, you have to set it all up when connecting to a new network, etc.

Not only users are not connected to WiFi all the time, but in many developing countries people often have no WiFi at home and rely on mobile data instead. It's a solution, but not a solution for everyone or a solution that works all the time.

Paranoid Android (operating system): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_Android_(operating_sy...

Maybe the old "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" song wasn't that wrong then:

    Hitler has only got one ball,
    Göring has two but very small,
    Himmler is rather sim'lar,
    But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball

Probably easy to do with a Mac, but iOS is a different question. Way too restrictive if you don't use iCloud.

It's easy to use a different calendar, search engine, etc, but it's far from easy to use an Android device without Google Services. Can be done, but banking apps, contactless payments, etc, become painful or impossible.

The point is that avoiding Android is also easy. I never had an Android device and have no interest.

Once again: The only problem is avoiding both platforms.

I avoid both platforms. Librem 5 is my smartphone.

There you go! It’s possible.

Regarding censorship, that works only if there's no network side blocking, otherwise the unencrypted requests to root servers also get intercepted. That's why some people use DoH as the upstream for their resolver.

Not all countries or ISPs do this, but some do.

True, DNSSEC should tell you if requests are being rewritten or blocked, but it will not help you circumvent this.

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And is also not using an LLM. It's neural machine translation.

NMT is a category containing both transformers and deep RNN. The Mozilla translation models are transformer LLM NMTs trained via Marian https://marian-nmt.github.io/ (ref: https://github.com/mozilla/translations/blob/main/docs/READM...)

NMT doesn't "contain" tranformers and deep RNNs, it can use them. LLMs use a transformer architecture, not everything using a transformer architecture is an LLM. NMT can actually use an LLM, but that's not the case according to the documentation you linked, they use a parallel dataset to train their models.

> they use a parallel dataset to train their models

If you want to be pedantic you should look up the LLM definition.

Care to explain why?