Search tankman with DDG in China

Search tankman with DDG in China

Guess what? DDG is blocked already, but for Chinese IP address (TCB desync technique to bypass the block), it only return Chinese state-sponsered source for searching tankman. I suspect DDG pass the visitor IP address or region to the Bing backend so I got such results.

u/EasterliesWP — 12 days ago

Weird DNS block behavior

I am trying to access my.mystnodes.com with Proton VPN WireGuard server but Chromium told my ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED.

With manual DNS lookup I found that Proton's default DNS seems to be blocking this domain.

dig my.mystnodes.com @10.2.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.20.23 <<>> my.mystnodes.com u/10.2.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 20035
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;my.mystnodes.com.              IN      A

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
explanation.invalid.    10800   IN      TXT     "Proton DNSBL/1b"

;; Query time: 256 msec
;; SERVER: 10.2.0.1#53(10.2.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 13 03:58:41 CST 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 81

By searching "Proton DNSBL/1b" I found two posts about this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/1undv74/why_does_protonvpn_block_chatzai/ (2 months ago)

This one is about chat.zi.ai being blocked and I can confirm it's still blocked now. The post was deleted for unknown reason but Google"s cache showed that the OP shared dig result. And I looked up myself, too.

dig chat.z.ai @10.2.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.20.23 <<>> chat.z.ai u/10.2.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 28033
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chat.z.ai.                     IN      A

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
explanation.invalid.    10800   IN      TXT     "Proton DNSBL/1b"

;; Query time: 296 msec
;; SERVER: 10.2.0.1#53(10.2.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 13 04:02:23 CST 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74

https://forum.archlinux.de/d/35587-verzoegerter-start-von-programmen/16 (Aug 2025)

This one is about 0x0.st, the OP's lookup showed it's blocked but I cannot reproduce.

dig 0x0.st 10.2.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.20.23 <<>> 0x0.st u/10.2.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17586
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;0x0.st.                                IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
0x0.st.                 7198    IN      A       168.119.145.117

;; Query time: 328 msec
;; SERVER: 10.2.0.1#53(10.2.0.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 13 04:01:35 CST 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 51

Looks like it's already unblocked.

I cannot find any other information about this "Proton DNSBL/1b". Actually, both chat.z.ai and my.mystnodes.com are not any malicious domain. The prior is a Chinese LLM website, the later is a P2P VPN's management site. Why does Proton block them? And what is 0x0.st and why it's blocked and then unblocked? Who is in control of this blocklist? How many and which websites is Proton VPN be blocking?

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u/EasterliesWP — 1 month ago

Update the wiki: Block Mixes and YT Playlists on mobile

The current wiki section on this doesn't cover YT mobile,

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/wiki/solutions/youtube/#wiki_mixes_and_yt_playlists

Please append these,

! YT Mobile - Home - Hide Mixes
m.youtube.com##ytm-rich-item-renderer:has([href*="start_radio=1"])
! YT Mobile - Search - Hide Mixes
m.youtube.com##ytm-search ytm-compact-radio-renderer:has([href*="start_radio=1"])
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u/EasterliesWP — 4 months ago