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Up until yesterday, this problem didn't exist but today when I was connected to a VPN, I couldn't post either a text or image post. I got this error: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
After I disconnected from my VPN, the error went away. What gives?
Not an admin of lemmy.world, but have been dealing with a lot of the same crap recently.
Users have been uploading CSAM material behind VPNs. That sort of material can get any of our lemmy instances taken down and us admins are personally liable.
So in short, those very few ruined it for everyone else. My instance also now blocks vpns and tor networks.
Users have been uploading CSAM material behind VPNs.
Yikes! I understand now, thanks.
When connected to my VPN, which I am as much as possible, I can not vote, save posts or comment (presumably I can't post either) on lemmy.world. I can understand the admins' motivations given recent troubles, but it isn't a reasonable, privacy-considerate solution.
With zero context, that error doesn't look intentional, let alone targeted at VPN users. I believe it is the result of a malformed JSON payload.
It's the result of the webservice returning an html error page instead of a json response.
It would be preferable to return an error response in a json string, if that's feasible.
Of course it would but I'm just saying what I'm seeing
That makes sense.
Lemmy-UI's error reporting leaves... much to be desired. It's better than it used to be, but not as good as it could be.