Access denial

VPN

If you're accessing any Lightingale service from a VPN, chances are you're already blocked by us, but will get unblocked if with mixnets like Tor, or encrypted proxies. This is intentional.

We strongly support privacy and anonimity, while also highly detest the idea of fattening any commercial VPN vendor. VPNs do not offer privacy or security on the Internet in any way, let alone either anonimity or anti-censorship, and in no way any of them contribute to the effort of developing either anti-censorship or concealing technology to truly liberate the masses. As such, we've long since decided to take direct action, actively identifying and fingerprinting VPNs, while advising people to switch to real solutions instead.

Client

We identify some client programs as high-risk, and block requests from those programs if identified.

FAQ

I'm using a VPN, what should I do?

To put it simply, please stop using a VPN to access us.

If you're familiar with accessing services hosted on mixnets, you can access our services via alternative means. Or if you don't want to go through the hassle, please disconnect from your VPN, and if you have access to either exit/outproxy-enabled mixnet (e.g. Tor, I2P (I2Pd is recommended if you are comfortable with command line), Lokinet) or encrypted proxies, use them instead.

What if I'm blocked wrongly?

Within 18 hours, please contact us and provide your Cloudflare Ray ID in your unblocking appeal. After we've verified that you did indeed not connect from a VPN, you'll be unblocked as soon as possible. However, if you used a client program we deem as high-risk, we will reject your appeal immediately.

Could you stop blocking VPNs?

No.