It is to me, faved.

Pretty much, yeah. Those they can't get to despite efforts.

Worth mentioning NextDNS and ControlD under this! I migrated from the former to the latter about six months ago, but both are a solid choice.

I am curious why SNI-based block isn't used.

German authorities, not Germans.

I knew about torrenting, due to the problem of redistributing copyright material. But pure streaming? Are you sure that is illegal in Germany?

Germans yes, the gov with their over-regulation not

German Wikipedia was taken down twice (for "privacy", not piracy though). Still "illegal information". In the latter case about a former Stasi worker turned leftist member of parliament.

https://www.theregister.com/2006/01/20/wikipedia_shutdown/

The German Wikipedia site was taken down by court order this week because it mentioned the full name of a deceased Chaos Computer Club hacker, known as Tron. A Berlin court ordered the closure of the site on Tuesday after it sided with the parents of the German hacker, who wanted to prevent the online encyclopedia from publishing the real name of their son. A final ruling is expected in two weeks' time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090129160045/https://cyberlaw....

By virtue of an interim injunction ordered by the Lübeck state court dated November 13, 2008, upon the request of Lutz Heilmann (Member of Parliament – “Die Linke” party), Wikipedia Germany is hereby enjoined from continuing linking from the Internet address wikipedia.de to the Internet address de.wikipedia.org, as long as under the address de.wikipedia.org certain propositions concerning Lutz Heilmann remain visible.

> or those overrun with malware to protect users

The anti-malware companies won't lobby government to block malware as that would cut into sales of their anti virus/malware.

There is no legislation here. CUII is a private organization that generates lists of domains that contain copyright violations. ISPs voluntarily choose to block those.

Which one is that?

I would be interested in paying a bit more if the ISP is better. In the Netherlands we always had xs4all, nowadays sorta morphed into freedom internet, which was started from a hacker magazine and kept the spirit, fighting surveillance and censorship while offering regular ISP services and then some. I'm not aware that Germany has such a thing so any step in the right direction would make me switch if I can get it (should be fine if it's available via Telekom's public network, we're currently on a virtual operator as well)

I use an o2 DSL connection in Berlin. The domains I tested seem to resolve fine. And you can of course configure an alternate DNS. Which apparently I didn't yet on my new laptop. So, that is fixed now. Mostly that's just a performance fix. Operator DNS tends to be a bit slow to respond and it's nice to get back a few milliseconds. But I also don't mind my operator not spying on me.

Of course I also use Firefox so mostly that just bypasses the system DNS entirely and uses dns over https.

Despite what facade?

The government or even courts are not involved with these blocks.

The main complaint about these blocks is that they are managed and decided on by private companies and _not_ by the government / law.

> German government is just as draconian as the US

this is called "disinformation"

For example soon to be released 300TB Spotify music library dump.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339

I thought demonoid was dead dead?