shitloadofbooks 6 days ago

It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking, or routes the traffic through TCP proxies so your traffic appears to come from a different country without these laws.

This will increase the latency of all traffic to that site though.

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  • lelanthran 6 days ago

    > It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking,

    I don't understand what this means:

    1. It resolves DNS requests - got it.

    2. The resolution sends back an address to a CDN - okay, not sure that I got it

    3. The resolved address is in a country which doesn't require age checking - Totally don't get it: how will this help?

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  • selcuka 6 days ago

    A DNS provider can not route your traffic through TCP proxies, so it must be the former.

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    • cluckindan 6 days ago

      Sure they can. When your browser resolves a host, they replace the actual IP with the IP of a proxy that is configured to forward traffic according to the Host HTTP header.

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      • okasaki 5 days ago

        You would have to install a certificate for that to work.

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      • selcuka 5 days ago

        Good point. I was thinking of an HTTP proxy, but surely a TCP proxy would work.

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  • rany_ 5 days ago

    I tried out NextDNS and this feature doesn't seem to work anyway. Enabling "Bypass Age Verification" has no effect. I tested it out on PornHub and XVideos.

    I also can't find anything different in the returned A/AAAA records compared to my standard resolver.

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