"DLSite just deleted the 'petite' tag and blocked off access from overseas " - X (Twitter)

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crimsoncarmine said:
Things are just getting worse and worse. How can they revert from this? Credit card company too much power so they just suck their dick?
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Visa/Mastercard make up 90% of all digital payment processes worldwide (from what I've seen discussed). I believe this push for change by them comes from them being sued successfully or unsuccessfully for being liable for processing payments on websites like onlyfans for content that ended up being underage.

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If you're just using it to browse sites then you can't really go wrong with any of the popular choices.
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domigera said:
I've been using Mozilla products for a long time, so I figured I might as well use their VPN.
So far, I have no complaints.
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I suppose my real question is: Do all of your suggestions properly circumvent the content being blocked by region? ( I really haven't used a VPN except once for a brief period. and that was just for torrenting.)
 
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Abusat said:
Visa/Mastercard make up 90% of all digital payment processes worldwide (from what I've seen discussed). I believe this push for change by them comes from them being sued successfully or unsuccessfully for being liable for processing payments on websites like onlyfans for content that ended up being underage.




I suppose my real question is: Do all of your suggestions properly circumvent the content being blocked by region? ( I really haven't used a VPN except once for a brief period. and that was just for torrenting.)
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Yes proton and mullvad work seamlessly for getting over the region block, you can install the browser extension for the sole purpose of web browsing so your whole computer doesn't have to connect to a new server every time you want to look at dlsite, just the web browser itself.

Keep in mind that if you're still torrenting, mullvad ended up removing port forwarding awhile back, but Proton still has it.
 
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YuckYuck220 said:
Yes proton and mullvad work seamlessly for getting over the region block, you can install the browser extension for the sole purpose of web browsing so your whole computer doesn't have to connect to a new server every time you want to look at dlsite, just the web browser itself.
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I didn't get very far into exploring their options/services/addons, and I don't want to spam you with a bunch of questions on here, but do those both have browser extension options? Mullvad was advertising an entirely separate browser.

I just don't really have a lot of VPN experience and many people on things I've looked up since this talk about security issues from free VPNs, even Proton, so I guess I'm just being cautious and wanting to be sure of things.
 
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Abusat said:
I didn't get very far into exploring their options/services/addons, and I don't want to spam you with a bunch of questions on here, but do those both have browser extension options? Mullvad was advertising an entirely separate browser.

I just don't really have a lot of VPN experience and many people on things I've looked up since this talk about security issues from free VPNs, even Proton, so I guess I'm just being cautious and wanting to be sure of things.
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No worries, I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge.

Yes, both
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have browser extensions, although the Mullvad extension is only available on Firefox whereas Proton has it available on both Firefox and chromium browsers (Chrome, Brave, Internet Explorer, etc.). The Mullvad web browser is optional. If you're just browsing and downloading, then the extension/add-on is really all you're going to need.

If it's security you're worried about, there's never going to be 100% anonymity with these things. But you can take a bit of solace in knowing that both services have a no logs policy (your information and data won't be recorded) if you pay for a subscription. They're also open source which is good, if anything nefarious were going on, the community would've been able to call it out a long time ago.

Now free vpns aren't entirely user friendly. Even though they are free, there will always be a cost. It may be limited access to their services like putting time limits when you connect to one of their servers, access to only a select few countries, or even selling your data which is a common one since it's a way for them profit while being free. Proton's free plan contains some of these limitations which is why you hear complaints about it. Free vpn = bad usually.

You can't go wrong with either option for what you are doing but if you want my suggestion, get a Proton subscription. It's just better for general use.
 
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Hello, I've got a question, this region lock is JP only correct?
So we're back to 1990 videogame region locks...
 
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The purge has begun. Some with the tag of "petitte/loli" or "uniform suit" is currently available for JP only (I try Urban VPN but still no luck to access). So, may I ask if there are any solutions for the current meantime?
 
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TRD-151102 said:
The purge has begun. Some with the tag of "petitte/loli" or "uniform suit" is currently available for JP only (I try Urban VPN but still no luck to access). So, may I ask if there are any solutions for the current meantime?
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Mozilla VPN works, alongside the other VPNs mentionned previously.
 
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TRD-151102 said:
The purge has begun. Some with the tag of "petitte/loli" or "uniform suit" is currently available for JP only (I try Urban VPN but still no luck to access). So, may I ask if there are any solutions for the current meantime?
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In Urban VPN add-on (now Urban Shield) you need to go to Settings and change the location to Japan, the default location is set to USA
 
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teraexbf said:
In Urban VPN add-on (now Urban Shield) you need to go to Settings and change the location to Japan, the default location is set to USA
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thank you so very much, finally a vpn that allows japan to be used. this will be VERY helpful.
 
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wolf67 said:
it does make me nervous that this will eventally discorage a lot of adult game devs from even making these type of games.
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This is 100% what's going to happen over time. Fewer devs will be making games when the reward for making them gets less and less. There are many niche genres that rely on every single person who buys the games, now cut off the entire western market from that and suddenly your potential customer base is quite small. Japan needs to do more to fight back against this, but as with all free speech issues, it's hard to argue for porn where censorship comes for first.
 
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lnomsim said:
The irony is that their leaders are probably not that puritanical.
When you hear about rapists and pedophiles not getting caught, it's mostly people with money and power.
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Those that actually keep their tracks covered. But times are changing for the worst because no one can separate fiction from reality.
 
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At this point Japan should just invest in creating their own international payment method. Sadly I don't think they have much incentive since I assume they don't get many purchases from overseas, so they just change some english words, block some stuff outside of japan and call it a day. I wish they would give those payment processors the middle finger and do their own thing instead.

This is one of the few legitimate uses I can see for cryptocurrency, for buying stuff which gets bullied by mainstream payment processors. Unfortunately, the reputation of crypto as a whole is 6ft under at this point, so no serious business wants to have anything to do with it.

Zabon said:
This is 100% what's going to happen over time. Fewer devs will be making games when the reward for making them gets less and less. There are many niche genres that rely on every single person who buys the games, now cut off the entire western market from that and suddenly your potential customer base is quite small. Japan needs to do more to fight back against this, but as with all free speech issues, it's hard to argue for porn where censorship comes for first.
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I think western R-18 devs should worry more than JP R-18 devs honestly. At least JP devs have sites like DLSite, which are unrestricted within their own country. Most western countries have virtually nothing that can shield them from these mentally deranged corporations. Patreon is heavily restricted, SS is fine for now, Steam works until they decide to randomly remove your R-18 game for no apparent reason. Of the three, only Steam has enough stronghold of the market to actually stand up against payment processors, but their R-18 policy is still very inconsistent. Patreon and SS would both delete all R-18 content if Mastercard/Visa so much as barked at them. More direct methods like paypal would do the exact same under pressure.
 
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defnotalt said:
At this point Japan should just invest in creating their own international payment method. Sadly I don't think they have much incentive since I assume they don't get many purchases from overseas, so they just change some english words, block some stuff outside of japan and call it a day. I wish they would give those payment processors the middle finger and do their own thing instead.

This is one of the few legitimate uses I can see for cryptocurrency, for buying stuff which gets bullied by mainstream payment processors. Unfortunately, the reputation of crypto as a whole is 6ft under at this point, so no serious business wants to have anything to do with it.



I think western R-18 devs should worry more than JP R-18 devs honestly. At least JP devs have sites like DLSite, which are unrestricted within their own country. Most western countries have virtually nothing that can shield them from these mentally deranged corporations. Patreon is heavily restricted, SS is fine for now, Steam works until they decide to randomly remove your R-18 game for no apparent reason. Of the three, only Steam has enough stronghold of the market to actually stand up against payment processors, but their R-18 policy is still very inconsistent. Patreon and SS would both delete all R-18 content if Mastercard/Visa so much as barked at them. More direct methods like paypal would do the exact same under pressure.
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What is SS?
 
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defnotalt said:
At this point Japan should just invest in creating their own international payment method. Sadly I don't think they have much incentive since I assume they don't get many purchases from overseas, so they just change some english words, block some stuff outside of japan and call it a day. I wish they would give those payment processors the middle finger and do their own thing instead.

This is one of the few legitimate uses I can see for cryptocurrency, for buying stuff which gets bullied by mainstream payment processors. Unfortunately, the reputation of crypto as a whole is 6ft under at this point, so no serious business wants to have anything to do with it.



I think western R-18 devs should worry more than JP R-18 devs honestly. At least JP devs have sites like DLSite, which are unrestricted within their own country. Most western countries have virtually nothing that can shield them from these mentally deranged corporations. Patreon is heavily restricted, SS is fine for now, Steam works until they decide to randomly remove your R-18 game for no apparent reason. Of the three, only Steam has enough stronghold of the market to actually stand up against payment processors, but their R-18 policy is still very inconsistent. Patreon and SS would both delete all R-18 content if Mastercard/Visa so much as barked at them. More direct methods like paypal would do the exact same under pressure.
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You have a point there. Thanks to those so-called SJWs, greedy plutocrats, and extreme activists that now we have less and less things than we had just 5 years ago. Still, I understand this movement since there are many games or manga in JP that the creators/authors would be appreciate if less international audience acknowledge about them. If this cannot be settle down or the voice not reached out, JP market will close down all gates soon enough since they know that they will be fine with their own local market.
 
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I was starting to wonder what was going on when I started noticing circles with content missing that I knew used to exist. At first I just assumed maybe they had removed titles from DLsite but over the past few weeks I noticed more and more "error" messages when trying to find artist or game pages. This issue of payment processors dictating what can and cannot be sold really needs to be addressed legally, since for all intents and purposes, it's none of their business. Either the content is legal and should be available or it isn't and some other organization should be dealing with that.

Suppose I'll have to start considering utilizing a VPN service, DLsite access is hardly worth a subscription on it's own, but this also seems like something that's only going to get worse. Might as well get the old seedbox going again if everything is going to nudge me toward VPN or otherwise masking my location.
 
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