Submitted 3 months ago by mmababes@lemmy.world to support@lemmy.world
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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.
With zero context, that error doesn’t look intentional, let alone targeted at VPN users.
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.
That makes sense. HTML would be a malformed JSON payload, from the perspective of a parsing library.
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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 months ago
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.
mmababes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yikes! I understand now, thanks.