this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
393 points (99.0% liked)

Technology

73664 readers
3917 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
393
Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 3 days ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
90 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FYI Belgian "site blocks" are still just simple DNS blocks at the ISP level.

You can easily get around it by using any of the well known public DNS resolvers.

Cheatsheet:

Google: 8.8.8.8
Cloudflare: 1.1.1.1
Quad9: 9.9.9.9
[โ€“] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And if they make them change the results just in Belgium you can set up something simple like a pihole on a cheap VM with any random VPS and use the VM as your DNS server. Just make sure to host the VM somewhere that wont have the restrictions.