Tailscale should work. It uses Wireguard and does some UDP fuckery to get around the firewall and NAT (including CGNAT). I can stream Jellyfin through it at 1080p native with no significant buffering, it’ll work for music.

Is this what normies feel like when Linux users tell them to just use Linux? I have some apologies to make.

POW is a far higher cost on your actual users than the bots.

That sentence tells me that you either don’t understand or consciously ignore the purpose of Anubis. It’s not to punish the scrapers, or to block access to the website’s content. It is to reduce the load on the web server when it is flooded by scraper requests. Bots running headless Chrome can easily solve the challenge, but every second a client is working on the challenge is a second that the web server doesn’t have to waste CPU cycles on serving clankers.

POW is an inconvenience to users. The flood of scrapers is an existential threat to independent websites. And there is a simple fact that you conveniently ignored: it fucking works.

Interface configuration and DNS resolution are managed by different systems. Their file structures are different. It’s been like this for many decades, and changing it is just not worth breaking existing systems.

No numbers, no testimonials, or even anecdotes… “It works, trust me bro” is not exactly convincing.

If this is as significant an issue as you imply, please link some credible sources.

As far as I can tell, the “Chinese server” (or EU server) is just a public ID and Relay server, and necessary for the application to function unless a self-hosted server is used.

FOSS purists are too busy malding over systemd, and Steam being proprietary DRM, and games being closed-source.

Important addition: don’t just shut the fuck up.

First, in some jurisdictions, failure to identify is an arrestable offense. Full name, date of birth, relevant cards/papers.

Second, if you need to reach for something, say something so they don’t think you’re about to pull a weapon on them. Officer safety is always a concern in the land of handing out guns like candy.

Third, explicitly state that you are exercising your fifth amendment rights. Otherwise you might run into an “I want a lawyer, dawg” situation.