RIP.
>>48112825I was surprised when I saw it. Luckily I saved everything I wanted the day prior lol
>>48112825Can I still download stuff from their 3D page or is it over?
>>48112834Its over.
What services? I can still watch videos.
So, what is the cheapset VPN you can get nowdays?
>>48112845Around 99% of the video tabs i had opened got region locked.
>have to use kraut proxy to use 4chin >have to turn it off to access chink sitesdo I also have to get fucking nip vpn to look at fucking images? god i hate modern internet
>>48112825The reason? Cheapening on server issues?
>>48112880>>48112825I want to ask this same thing. Why did overseas users got banned?
>>48112873well it works with basic bitch jap vpn so at least they didn't care enough to block popular vpns (unlike 4chan, so I have to switch back to post here)why THE FUCK would they do it thoughdo japs really hate everyone else that much?
>>48112891>do japs really hate everyone else that much?While not related, have you seen the situation with Japanese twitter artists recently?
>>48112891>do japs really hate everyone else that much?I knew the Japanese were racist and shit, but I never thought they would reach this point. Maybe, and I hope, it was for other reasons that have not been clarified yet.
>>48112896No, what happened? the few people I follow just repost porn and post their food as they always do.
>>48112902TLDR, twitter removed the block option.Artists started to get harassed again.They all either went private or blocked comments.
>>48112908It is just that? I mean, is bad, but I also hear there were other controversies as well.
>>48112908>twitter removed the block option.lollmao
>>48112908????? I still have it.
>>48112915There are like 3-5 controversies more, for example the AI one, BUT mass harassing because the block option was removed was what made almost all japs explode.>>48112919Its basically placebo now, it used to block all interaction (Viewing posts, replying, quoting, retweeting), now it only blocks the account owner from seeing that someone replied to a tweet.
>>48112919Then what the hell is happening???Please I am so scared!
>>48112930>now it only blocks the account owner from seeing that someone replied to a tweet.What the FUCK is wrong with twitter? I mean, what sense does this make???
>>48112852Fuck CuckoldCuckoldDouga and their incompetent administration.>>48112908What a bunch of vaginas, imagine being the fragile sissy that deleted everything because of mean words.
>>48112936Probably related to Europe cuck laws where some places are banning anything with "controversial" content, for example France has banned almost all anime websites.
>>48112930>Its basically placebo now, it used to block all interaction (Viewing posts, replying, quoting, retweeting), now it only blocks the account owner from seeing that someone replied to a tweet....Huh? So I can just start harrassing whoever I want and nothing will ever happen to me and they won't be able to ignore me?
>Starting Wednesday, October 30, 2024, we will be gradually implementing restrictions on the use of the following services when access is determined to be from overseas.The restrictions will vary depending on the service and device in question.If access is determined to be from within Japan, these restrictions will not be applied.We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to those who are currently using or planning to use Niconico from overseas, and we ask for your understanding. Please note thatthe services in question and the restrictions may change depending on changes in the international situation and social environment, revisions to laws and regulations, etc.https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/230013.html#ar
>>48112957Alright, but how does that explain banning non-Europeans?Japanese mind cannot comprehend foreigners being a non-uniform entity?
>>48112983NND staff being lazy fucks or a order from higher ups.
>>48112983It is not about "racism" or anything anon, it's to cheap out on server load.
>>48112836Liar, I still can download from NND solid. But better fucking download everything just in case.
>>48113011I came here from the MMD thread because some tags were gone.
>>48112957Also Bank jews blackmailing all japanese services.
>>48113003Ok they're not racist, but extremely greedy.
>>48112908Jesus
>>48112825>Foreigners now banned from using Nico servicesWhat services?>>48112845>>48112852What country are you two in? I'm American and after testing about 10 random videos nicovideo still works for me. I've also tested Tor browser with Japanese nodes and YT-DLP and both of those still work.
>>48113125Mexico.
>>48113097>but extremely greedy.Nico is owned by Kadokawa so yes.
>>48112952you underestimate "puritan" zealots on xitter.
>>48113125Still works for me in the UK.
>>48113125Videos (well, those not R-18) don't seem to be affected for the moment.However, https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/ is fully affected unfortunately (at least for me in Europe).But you can circumvent that using a VPN Gate relay (and set it as an MS-SSTP connexion): https://www.vpngate.net/en/#LIST
>>48113125https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm42773209?playlist=eyJ0eXBlIjoic2VyaWVzIiwiY29udGV4dCI6eyJzZXJpZXNJZCI6MzcwOTE0fX0&transition_type=series&transition_id=370914Is this one working for you?
>>48112908As far as I remember, people should still be blocked from posting anything to your account, but they can still see your posts.
>>48113238Nope. Tor browser with jp nodes works but my regular browser and ytdlp both dont. Looks like it's an 18+ content block, at least in my case.
Things are going back to the way they were pre 2010.
>>48113238Only with VPN.
>>48112898>racistThey're xenophobic, not racist
>>48112898Why shouldn't they? Foreigners have been causing nothing, but problems. Chinese are DDoS attacking and posting real CP, Westerners are crying about muh loli and lewd, and everyone is posting AI generated garbage.
>>48113336>and everyone is posting AI generated garbage.Implying Japs themselves don't do that.
>>48113227>However, https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/ is fully affected unfortunatelyYep, same here.>But you can circumvent that using a VPN Gate relayMy Tor browser jp node method also works.
>>48112908Thanks, Elon!
>>48113345their land, their call, their mess
>>48112825What was the last straw that finally pushed them to do this? Was it that hack that took down the site for a few days? Did some law get passed somewhere and they are not willing to risk their necks? Did some payment service like Mastercard try to impose another rule?
>>48113336not to mention the sea of black tik tokers and kik streams who go to japan just to cause trouble for views. That can't have gone over well in the Japanese collective psyche
>>48112825good, now less cultural christians westerners crying bloody murder since they dont know, or bother with, vpns
>>48113394>now less cultural christians westerners what
>>48113388I was mostly just talking about Japanese sites, but yeah, that seems to have also become a big problem.Why though? When did Japan become the new hot thing for these vermin? It wasn't exactly the biggest tourist destination a while ago.
>>48113410isn't the yen on a low? it must be dirt cheap traveling there.
>>48113410It isn't shocking in America or Europe, and the rest of Asia is either too poor, too high of a reeducation camp risk, or already a shithole in a way an obnoxious idiot wont stand out against the actual crime and shitty lives people have there.Japan and South Korea on the other hand still had a mostly squeaky clean homogeneous image that big loud annoying nigger stands out in.Purely shock value for clicks.
>>48113372No idea. Maybe foreign IPs were posting full movies. Maybe piracy lobbyists pulled a gayop by uploading infringing content and reporting themselves to themselves. Maybe they decided to cut their losses because 99.999% of content is JP for JP anyhow.Either way, even Canada is region blocked so RIP Moontube. I truly enjoyed watching JP dubs of western stuff and subbed AVGN.
>>48113523So we as foreigners are also partly responsible for this. I don't know how to feel right now.
>>48113407aka normies
>>48113601I know a lot of people hate the meme and shit. But westerners genuinely have become so disrespectful and ugly in general that a lot of Asian countries are starting to hate them. And, who can blame it?
>>48113748They need us more than we need them as long as their population continues to plummet.
>>48113830Well, you are not wrong. But still, if foreigners go to Japan to help with the population, I am really afraid that something like what happened in America or Europe could happen.
>>48113854Yeah I don't want foreigners in Japan but they shouldn't close themselves off, restricting one of their only good exports (anime goods). However if this becomes a trend I hope that also means they'll grow a spine once again and make games for the Japanese only in mind without fear of ESG and the hand of globalization.
>>48113924Yeah, I know Japan is not perfect. But I really don't want to see it get worse by some people who don't love the country. I live in Germany and the immigration did his evil deeds here, and just imagining that something like this could happen in a country I like so much is depressing beyond what you can believe me. I need comfort...
>>48112825Isn't all the paid content like live, anime and whatnot all blocked anyways?
WELP, now what, they hardly ever poast shit to jewtube and vpn is too slow to stream vidya
>>48114154Download shit slowly over the VPN to watch later. As a bonus you get to keep it and share it. Welcome back to the '90s.
>>48113924From what I have with a source with a native in Japan, regards to Japan it's very nuanced and multifaceted. They look at Overseas as a singular thing sort of a amalgamation Lovecraftion horror and wish to close themselves off as a whole because it has become worse in the West and they wish to keep things to themselves because they do not wish to see their industries become corrupted or become worse over time like Video Games has overall with DEI/ESG censorship or seeing bad foreigners really making it worse in the home country.For example business people in Japan know that the West is not all the same and it's about demographics and who buys what etc. But normal Otaku do not see it that way, and see the West as corrupt and wish to protect their culture before it becomes worse.
>>48113445>>48113410I would argue it's due to two factors1. The Western Entertainment industry has fallen due to content being too much about "Diversity is a strength", corruption of entertainment and nothing anyone wants to watch and so everyone has flocked over to Japan, or ends up liking the Diversity thing and talks like someone who uses the Ebonics language. That means it has opened up a vacuum and Japan is the default along with South Korea and other countries. Japan for Anime, Video Games, SK for KPop and Gacha.2. The Yen is low right now like other anon mentioned, but it more or less has to do with people traveling after COVID saying "What am I doing with my life I may not ever get this chance again and I will be traveling to Japan" and they are. This has also caused Asian countries trouble because while Japan has become a major spot, other tourist countries like Seuol and the rest are overwhelmed by foreigners because some are just traveling all over Asia as a packaged deal. I would say it's the 2nd more than the 1st as Tourism is just heavy overall and it has never been this high even by worldwide standards just this year alone.
>>48112908I swear the whole block button was meant to go after the Politically Correct types like bad Localizers and people who hate Japanese content and wish to censor it with Manga, Anime and Video Games. But it also opened up another can of worms with Artists being unable to protect themselves. I hate how puritan America has become and the harassment campaigns are very annoying. Too many terminally always online kids.
>>48114579It is like a cartoon character who for every solution he invents for a problem, it creates a greater problem constantly.
>>48114579Isn't Elon right wing, I figured it is because muh free speech or whatever it is those people use to justify being nasty towards everyone without accountability.>>48113748 is right, Western culture has gotten too infuriatingly ugly and it's making life hell for everyone else.
>>48114634That's what happens when you just Do Stuff instead of thinking things through and testing. There's a good reason corpos tend to be slow-acting despite business culture purporting to venerate decisiveness and risk-taking: it's not dysfunction or hypocrisy, it's evolution.
>>48114669>Isn't Elon right wing, I figured it is because muh free speech or whatever it is those people use to justify being nasty towards everyone without accountability.That's exactly what it was. You had horrible localizers like Katrina who bragged about blocking everyone and being able to not listen to people criticize her butchering various works and saying censorship good in Japanese works and complaining she could not censor Anime but could censor games because it all goes through a process. Western Culture is annoying, and I wish they would go away as well. Hopefully we can find a way to make them go somewhere else so we can have Japanese stuff to ourselves.
>>48114720What genuinely worries me is that at some point the corps are going to realize all their public is going to Japan, and then they will try to buy companies there, bribe manga writers, etc. They could even start trying to bring immigrants to Japan of the worst type so they manipulate the country more easily.
Was Nico really getting that infested with Western normies? It seemed like the site itself was ignored, but the content was being brought to Youtube and other sites like that.
Pixiv needs to do this ASAP. So many tags on Pixiv are just filled with absolute garbage posted by faggots with english names.
>>48114859Wait, Pixiv wasn't always filled with garbage?Just how many things are gonna getting ruined by the west?
>>48112930Bull-fucking-shit.I still can't see any posts from a guy that blocked me.>>48112873It's only going to get worse, anon.Meanwhile in Russia:1. Use one DPI bypass configuration to view Discord, 4chan, Xitter (unreliably), basic Nico, Pixiv.2. Use another to view YouTube on PC.3. Use Tor bridges to help you connect to some other websites, like atwiki.4. Use a different DPI bypasser to access YouTube, 4chan, Pixiv, Nico on Android.5. Use an actual mobile VPN to access Fantia at all, Xitter on Android, and various porn doujin websites plus kemono.6. Use a Japanese VPN extension for Chrome to access restricted Nico content from now on.7. Turn all obfuscators on your device off to access some local websites or link your Google account (sign up, log in) in mobile games.
>>48114877At this point this is straight up 1984, but in internet. Don't you all see it? They "finally" (to say in some way) trying to fully control the internet, I wonder when 4chan will be closed, I fear that day.
>>48112891I'm not even japanese and I hate us that much. Shutting out the western world's madness and hysteria is the right move.
>>48114816Most western nico users i followed moved to twitter after a while or fucked off existence.Chinese ones got fucked big time though.
>>48114921>I'm not even japanese and I hate us that much.Exactly. Just think about it, is hard to think for a westerner how a Japanese dislikes us right now, but that's because of our culture. They have a different way of thinking and by the way we are behaving they will consider us nothing but animals.
>>48114768Technically that is what is happening with Manga and Anime or they are trying to co-opt it because the West are failures and did not learn to make their own things and rely on old IP's than to create anything new or allow people to be creative. Instead co-opt and make it worse with political correctness ideology. But I do think though like all things it will fail because nobody will buy it, and they will have to figure out how to revive their own market. As for buying companies here, they can not, they can can bribe but like all things it's like throwing money and then it being unsuccessful so it ends up being costly. Same situation for Video Games. Eventually the West will move on and it will focus on itself or a different country and go to that.
>>48114951>>48114921I live in America, it's culture is awful and the ones who are hyper moralist about Children are usually the ones with actual CP or get caught with it and have their real name in public. It's better to shut it off for now and wait for the West to move onto something else and for things to calm down before they allow everyone back on the site. Hopefully the normals move onto SK at least.
God it sure feels great to live on a irrelevant 4th world country 20 years in the past, none of this shit affects me and I dont care whatsoever.Japan closing itself again because it started its racism and xenophobia campaing again? EU being flooded with Nafris? America being a puppet state of the jews? Dude what the fuck are you talking about, have you seen FFX? It looks fucking amazing, after Im finished with that Im playing the new Zelda, some friend of mine found a game called Touhou 6 on Google, Im going to play that too, looks funny.
>>48113351can you teach us did you made tor jp node anon?
>>48113011did you use yt-dl?
>>48112825Still works with VPN, at least for me
>>48112825>More gaijin kickedJapan is healingNow if only they would grow some balls and ban twitter and use a social media just for japanese
>>48115075It's closing itself off again because foreigners don't respect Japan rules and tradition. And good, China and the West has poisoned the well far enough.
>>48112825that DDoS from some time ago made executives mad
>>48112908wasn't that because of Grok using their illustrations for training as well?
>>48118798They should do something about american credit card companies/payment processors first.
>>48119227They did. There are options to use a Japanese credit card or buy digital currency or points to trade.Japan might lose out on foreign sales, but they know that the moment they lose their JP customers, it's over for them.
>>48119227Yeah ban all of them once and for all and stop accepting gaijin money
>>48118798>Japan is healingThere's no point on doing any of this if they keep importing pajeets into the country
>>48119214Yes... then they learned that all platforms are using the content for AI training or have hellish censorship.OR they are too small for number whores that want to see replies, comments, followers increasing nonstop, etc.
It's only going to get worse from here on out, right?Fuck, I better start updating my archives from other sites before they start blocking gaijins too.
>>48114579For the last time, do you people know how many young foreigners speak English and follow Anglo-dominated (keyword: ANGLO, as in you can find it all over the Anglosphere) modern cultural aspects? I've even seen older Japanese mention about the youth thinking going out with someone merely a grade below is "perverted". I myself have seen countless youths who barely speak English have the same sort of attitudes. It's a consequence of a generation or two having grown up on Anglo-American popular websites.Prime example, if true, of Internet-style normalfaggotry, mentioned here >>48120030. Egotistical shitheads can't stand the idea of not getting attention for their content, not having it with their faggot handle in the corner, or having it "stolen" by a program.>>48112908Good. Maybe they'll finally fuck off Western normalfaggot SMS so I don't have to step foot there ever again. Better yet, if the above is true, they deserve it. You want attention so bad? Then take it, failed normalfaggots.
>>48112873You deserve it for being a terrible person desu.
>>48120030>OR they are too small for number whores that want to see replies, comments, followers increasing nonstop, etc.This is one of the reason why misskey.io never really took off despite being the perfect alternative to X.Going from 10k-100k reactions to 100-200 at most really hurt the ego of many big artists and japanese content creators.
>>48120030Did people seriously think that bluesky thing was going to get any bigger? Same old thing happens, Musk does a dumb thing, outrage happens, people look for new thing, new thing is very tiny, and people move back forgetting about outrage.It's like a merry go round. Twitter dying would be the best thing to happen to the world.
>>48120110>or having it "stolen" by a program.That's got nothing to do with ego or anglo attitudes.
>>48113410Japanese culture is absolutely destroying american culture in the west with anime being their main cultural export so americans got mad and are sending all of their worst plagues to japanIt also doesn't help that japan doesn't kneel that much to americans, for example they still refuse to ban loli and stuff so that makes them a bigger target for americans and the west to try and destroy them as much as they can for being different and not following their instructions, countries aren't allowed to have their own distinctive culture in the modern world after all.If you see tourism to japan correlates to the rising popularity of anime in the west which also includes interest in japanese culture as a wholeTL;DR japan is fucked
Whoever's responsible for this,Watch your back.
>>48120402>Japanese culture is absolutely destroying american culture in the west with anime being their main cultural export so americans got mad and are sending all of their worst plagues to japanThis is fucking hypocrisy, people are watching anime and manga because American franchises are so fucking filled with political correctness that no one wants to watch their shit and now these same dipshits are trying to ruin Japan so they can have their audience back.
>>48112979> and we ask for your understandingHow about you explain yourselves so there's something to understand you fucking gooks
>>48114877>>48112930So it's indeed in the plans, huh.I guess it will reinvigorate mass reporting. At least it didn't happen in 2022 or 2023, when n*foids were much more active.
>>48122573Unless reporting a blocking user's posts or account will also be disabled, of course.
well that's another monthly subscription just to keep watching content that I likeit's like everything around me is just getting worse the older I get
die last samurais
>>48120116I'm top 10000 in decency and righteousness, shut up.
>>48123257kill yourself out of /jp/
>>48123564That would be detrimental to the board, I think you should leave instead
>>48123665excuse me mr. yakuza, could you please wear some shoes? thank you.
>>48123687>wan wan wan
>>48123665your existence is detrimental to the earthmake your way out and go back to the hellhole you came from
>>48124361stop crying retardgo back to your vtuber thread or whatever
>>48124609Don't listen to him, you just posted a quite normal response and this nigger just straight up told you to kys. It's probably a ragebait bot of those used to ruin 4chan or change their opinions.
The modern internet is so terribly designed and full of such angry, uncreative and unpleasant people. It's sad to see things like this happening, but I'm hoping eventually there will be a great shift leading to an exodus of people spending so much time on their devices as they realise how awful it is for them, that way virtual nature can heal.
I blame you know who.
>>48124794I'm sorry...
>>48112825fuckthey could have at least allowed premium users
>>48124787We are literally turning into 1984, I know people dislike having everything to it and the meme. But really, just think about how hateful the internet has become and how they are trying to "fix" content and literature. We are going to hell.
So the cheapset non jewish VPNs i could find were Mullvad and Malwarebytes, lets see if the situation changes eventually.
>>48126007They're trying to "fix" content and literature because of how hateful the internet has become. Hate breeds hate.
>>48114861He's lying to you. Even over a decade ago, Pixiv was filled with garbage. It's just that since it wasn't as known with people in general back then, mostly full fledged artists would use it.
to anyone that "archived" niconico videos, did you save danmaku comments?
>>48132044not since 2016but I can't even use them anymore, since it was with NNDD
>>48112825GoodGet fucked
>>48132674>NNDDGod, what a throwback.
I can still use it with no issues though.
>>48133431probably only mature content is blockedSeiga is blocked completely however
Is there a way to get yt-dlp to work with blocked videos?Like this for example. https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24371827
>>48134626Proxy/VPN.
>>48132674last year, i started bulk archiving bunch of niconico channels. i used https://github.com/Saccubus/Saccubus1, but later switched to https://github.com/ytdl-patched/ytdl-patched as it was automated easier with bat script, also converted danmaku *.xml to *.ass subtitle file so it's not embedded. i should probably dump these videos on peertube soon...
>>48135328You seem to know about the topic, can I ask you, is there a Touhou musical channel or music video that is good that has not been transferred to YouTube yet? Because I want to archive good Touhou songs.
>>48114877comfi...?
>>48114464The weak Yen unironically is putting Japan in a great position economy wise since it's now cheap as fuck to open factories here, especially all the chip and semi-con manufacturing factories they've opened up in the last 4 years in places like Kumamoto (Japan now has the most overall chip and semi-con factories though Taiwan is still above them with quality and advancement in chip tech), and the actual price of a lot of things haven't gone up unless it's foreign imported and not by much, kinda like the mid Showa era where the Yen was at 100 Yen/0.50 USD or around there iirc. The problem is that unfortunately since anime and manga are so big, and since the varus just happened, you have these retards from abroad coming here and acting like it's a theme park. To be honest you don't really see a lot of foreign tourists here unless you're in touristic areas, for example I don't really see tourists here in Kyoto unless it's somewhere like Gion because that's where they all usually go.
So we wont get a update in months if not years till kadokawa gets hacked again right?
>>48138798Part of the reason I am reticent to do a Japan trip is because of all the other foreigners. Fuck off, I'm supposed to be the foreigner.
>>48145968You should go now while you still can, because it will only get worse from now on.t. first trip to japan was 20 years ago, it was a completely different experience back then
>>48145968>>48146081Just don't go to places that are tourist traps like Akiba and Harajuku when you're in Tokyo because those places haven't been good for like 10-15 years now and Japs don't really go to them all that often anymore, this isn't the first time it's happened btw before Harajuku there was Ginza and then tourists started going there and Japs went to Harajuku instead and the cycle continues. Instead of going to Harajuku go to Shimo-Kita which is unironically not tourist infested, last time I went when I was in Tokyo it was like 95% Japs on the main and 5% foreigners, the backstreets as well where almost 100% Jap as well, if you want to go to Akihabara then just unironically go to Ikebukuro and around Otome Road instead since while the mains may have tourists it's usually mostly Jap on the main and 99% Jap on the backstreets, if you want a nice walk through Tokyo for shrine visits and just to see daily life then walk from Yanaka, which is slightly touristy, down to Nezu and take the route through the cemetery, there are a lot of temples and shrines around there and tourists don't go down that route. If you're in Kyoto then unironically just stay away from Gion and any of the obvious tourist spots and you're good to go, in fact if you want the old feeling of walking through the backstreets of Akihabara and you're in Kyoto then go through Teramachi-Kyogoku, not as big as Akiba used to be however it's better than what Akiba is now, there are lots of game shops, tech shops and manga/anime shops as well as just random ass shops there and since it crosses multiple lovely shrines you can stop by for shrine visits and buy some shrine trinkets, there's even a great retro video game store on the south-side of Teramachi with lots of used consoles, controllers, games and some old second hand merch and near the family mart around there is a massive electronics shop that you can get about anything for a cheap price at, as well as some smaller ones down the street. Also, it has good food because it's so close to Nishiki Ichiba, unlike Akiba and it's 99% Japanese since tourists don't go to Kyoto for anime or manga they go for places like Yasaka Jinja, anywhere in Gion and Fushimi Inari Taisha and things such as.tl:dr Just don't go to obvious tourist locations and you're good.
>>48124787The modern internet is garbage because it’s been invaded en masse by normalfags, corporations, and governments. The internet was good when it was separate from the real world. It all went to shit when the real world demanded the internet conform to it.The "touch grass" meme you refer to is out of touch and only sincerely said by the same ilk who trashed everything in the first place. The average normalfag is more online than even the most dedicated MMO users ever were 20 years ago, back when being at your computer for long periods of time was seen as a bad thing.
>>48124787>but I'm hoping eventually there will be a great shift leading to an exodus of people spending so much time on their devices as they realise how awful it is for themLol, if anything it will get even worse.Normalfags these days literally CAN'T survive without checking their phone every 2 minutes.
>>48118798>ow if only they would grow some balls and ban twitter and use a social media just for japaneseThe social media that exists on Japanese platforms are objectively worse than Twitter in practically every way; it's why they're all on Twitter in the first place.
>>48112825Still can see all the lewd MMDs with VPN. Giving like doesnt work with VPN on but does after turning it off.
>>48148040That and they are all censored.
>>48113748you can change westerners to burgers. Those ""people""" are animals and behave like the niggers they are
>>48112891because you can't keep your mentally ill off jp sites so everyone gets banned so they stay off.
>>48112983mentally ill woke schizos keep harassing people so everyone is shutting their internet off from them.
>>48113372unironically dragon quest spats
>>48153283As long as westerners continue to think that their morality is far superior to Japanese this problem will continue. VISA's imposition of morality and their service refusal for example.
>>48153820So never i guess.
>>48112983Honestly everyone, including the Japanese media, is blaming VISA & Mastercard going on a self-righteous campaign, but I don't think that's the "only" issue (although probably its a part of it). There's two questions here:1) Why is this so heavy handed when other companies like Pixiv and Fantia had more leeway & grace historically. Fantia just canceled Visa and Master Card but kept American Express, while PIXIV is full of porn but talked it's way on keeping VISA. 2) Why the fuck does this feel like Kadokawa pressing a panic button again and doing a half-ass job (i.e. Short notice, arbitrary ruling on what can be watched, killing the follower's update on new content completely, etc.)Something interesting is looking at twitter posts it seems that Japanese Cell companies are in blocking content as well (see Pic); citing similarly on a "safe place for minors" slogan. The uploader wasn't a foreigner, but domestic user too. Interesting to note, however, it's not on the Cell company's direct request, but Niconico interpreting and acting upon themselves to make the platform kid safe to keep good terms with the cell companiesHere's my theory. Kadokawa's system architecture was a total outdated shit, and got easily hacked by Blacksuit in May of this year. This lead to leaks of not only personal information of minors, but also company secrets of corporate allies (i.e. Cell companies). Whatever brand power Niconico had left in the Japanese market is now gone, and at mercy on the whims of other companies. They even lost face when their corporate head lied in public of the data being safe. The biggest concern to everyone hence is security, as no fucking cell or credit company wants to deal with leak of personal info that can lead to frauds. So Kadokawa being weak and incompetent just cuts off all foreign connections just to prove they're taking shit seriously to their investors/sponsors.BTW, VPN and even RSS's can still get me to all of the blocked content, so security-wise it's fucking useless.
>>48112825rip
works on my machine
>>48160114Cannot wait for the inminent "It was some Japanese asshole all along" kind of end of this shitty "plot"...Come on now, hate me for speak the truth, true fake "japaneses".
Videos are infinitely loading for me when I use Mullvad's Japanese VPNhelp
What happened and why did it happen?
They blame is on credit card companies.Even the manga archive website of Ken Akamatsu (now member of parliament) is getting shut down because credit cards refused to work with his website.Anything that smells manga and shows as much as a panty shot (i.e. 99.9%) is getting banned by credit card companies.
>>48170188If you don't need to comment on the said videos (or need to test if it's just mullvad being filtered), try watching on nicozon.>https://www.nicozon.net/Last time I checked they didn't even bothered to filter open/public VPN servers, so I doubt it's the IP being restricted and just the servers being overwhelmed on Mullvad's and/or Niconico's end. Aim for 13:00~04:59 (13:00~22:59 on weekends) on Japan's time as it has less traffic traditionally. >>48170101I'm not saying whatever you ultranationalist shit you want to spin. I'm just saying that the situation is probably more complex than just "blame the American woke CC companies." In the end they could of did what Fantia did and cancel VISA/Master Card, or did the most extreme like DMM and cancel all foreign transactions and IP to their adult content. However, niconico is doing like this weird censoring to both domestic and international users, and my bet is that as a company they're in some dire financial shit without leverage due to their past events.
>>48120106The way the internet is going in terms of traffic centralization and commodification, any sort of valuable free or cheap, community-driven content online that can be commoditized is going to suffer from paywalling, region-blocking, and other forms of media commercialization.It's a shame.
>>48171853>>48171853Just to add. If you have any favorite videos on the site it's wise to back them up via download ASAP; especially the old ones. Whether by financial or censor pressures they might start rolling back their server size, deleting videos, or just go bankrupt. Hopefully they won't, but it's best to do so just in case in these troubling times.
>>48171988I remember backing up all my playlists when the old smile_video servers that served videos without re-encoding died.The 120fps videos, stupidly high quality ones, and older stuff like SWF loops were lovingly jank.
>>48112908>twitter removed the block optionno they didn't stop making shit up.
>>48171440good. someone fuck that hack fraud a new asshole.
>>48171853sorry i was being retarded, it was ublock origin that was causing the videos not to load>https://www.nicozon.net/this works though, thanks
>>48112825Good.People that want to use their services will still find a way and pearl-clutching morality arbiters will be filtered out. More Japanese services must start doing this.
>>48112944Elon Musk.Elon Musk is wrong with Twitter.
>>48176424twitter was shit way before he bought it.
>>48171988Ty for reminding me to back up my beloved softcore gravure videos there
>>48112891>unlike 4chan, so I have to switch back to post hereIf your vpn offers a SOCKS5 proxy and you use firefox you can make a container specifically for niconico that redirects all the traffic through your japanese vpn of choice
>>48113366He's such a retard.
>>48177379He made it shittier in a lot of ways.
>>48120402i don't like that graph...
>>48120402How much of that graph is chinese? Serious question. They're everywhere in neighbouring countries.
>>48120402That's a pre-Covid graph. I'd like to see the 2024 numbers. I've heard from people who were in Japan during Covid that the absence of foreigners was kinda nice.
>>48171440There's no way of boycotting banks from doing this, is there
>>48205085Nips should try accepting bitcoin.
https://archive.is/lsUhg
>>48195932Saar you cant say that
>>48112908The artists are leaving because of the change to the TOS where twitter can train AI on anything they post there - something a lot of artists are very against.The block function is still present and functions mostly the same as before preventing you seeing their messages and preventing all interaction with them, the only difference is the person who is blocked can read your posts, (something they could already do if they made a second account). If you're that upset over the thought of people you don't like reading your messages, you should be using a private account, because otherwise they've always been able to do that with a few extra clicks. Anyone leaving to BlueSky over this is a moron, because BlueSky's privacy options are much worse - it doesn't even support private accounts.
Good. Japan needs to close off to all foreigners and protect its services from being trashed.
As a non-japanese Cookie contributor I must say this decision was a huge blow to the movement. YouTube was never a place for this kind of stuff, they remove videos with Inmu elements in a blink of an eye without even giving it an age restriction, and now only japanese residents of Niconico have easy access to these, meaning all hopes for expansion went through the window. It will just slowly die like this, it already does.
>>48216739Interesting theory. However, that article completely ignores rest of the world, focusing only on US-Japan interaction. Also, it was written by a grandma who went schizo in her 50s. I struggle to believe her without better sources. I'd love to read more on the subject however because while I find it hard to believe the main thesis, I could see it being a small part of bigger truth.
>>48217264It's kinda sad to see literal whos with a few hundreds/thousands followers delete their x account only to reach maybe 10% of this amount on bsky, basically shooting yourself in the foot because of muh ai. Yeah, it's definitely Elon's ai who will put you out of business and not your retarded decisions.
>>48120030Retardation of the young 2006 japanese generation: The Image
>>48126007And you all fucking deserved it.
>>48217344AKA Letting the economy Chinese powerhouse to put the final social/economy rape to Japan.
>>48112836It never is.
>>48112825Anytime to Japan to convert itself to Japanistan for don´t having balls to expand more that China...
>>48120402>Laughing with the 100m that Spain have in this latest years
>>48122027Watch yours then fake jap.
>>48223761People who aren't "schizo" these days are often vaxtarded. Fuck them and their normie false ((((((reality))))).
>>48171988What do people use to download nowadays?
>>48172002Anon... I would love to have a copy of your backup.......
>>48230267Currently on backups, would need to transfer it to something that I could seed as a torrent.Feel free to reply to this post in a few days and ask, as I'll likely forget.
>>48230785anon did you save old touhou videos (the ones you sometimes see on /f/ 2006-2011 ones)
>>48231118Probably a few, but I mostly saved otomad along with another archivist who downloaded every video tagged as otomad regardless of quality
>>48230204>What do people use to download nowadays?The answer to questions like this usually:yt-dlp for videosgallery-dl for images
>>48122573I don't understand why retards are bitching about this considering you could do the exact same thing by opening a profile in a fucking incognito tab. You're all a bunch of prima donnas.
>>48230204To add to this anon >>48235027. If you're a total retard/lazy on tech and don't know how to use non-GUI scripts, you can use nicozon's save system.>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sztJ8cO4makIt's bit tedious and limited to 720p, but it works at breaking the encryption 99% (most old vids worth saving are 480p anyways). Also you can use this with a vpn to bypass censored shit without logging in to your account.
>>48236788>If you're a total retard/lazy on tech and don't know how to use non-GUI scripts, you can use nicozon's save system.you should learn either way, especially if you are serious about archiving or preserving content ai broke barrier to entry
>>48236788>limited to 720pNico doesn't serve 1080p to non-premium users anyway
>>48153237Foreigners should have never been allowed on this site.
>>48230785
>>48232207THANKS TO BOTH YOU AND WHOEVER BACKING UP NICO NICO
>>48237803Like cityheaven.net?
>>48237803Foreigners run this shit, cope
>>48237803Yet you still post in English. Curious...
sure there reasons or whatever but as user its just annoying...remember finding wawawa アル中カラカラ guy and watching all they're posts good timesso it seems to work in private window, nice, hehe 音mad like this are great https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm44317996
>>48254936Still need to get that NAS, so hold your thanks until then.You are free to insult me until I get it set up thoever
>>48255811You missed an i in run
>>48145968I went for the first time this year and it was great fun.Yeah, there are a ton of foreigners in some places, but I didn't interact with them so whatever? Isn't it a bit conceited to think that you yourself are different from all these other foreigners who come to Japan because they love anime/manga/games?
>>48263043The flood of tourists turned Tokyo into a pretty cold place as the assumption from locals when they see a tourist went from "this is a clueless tourist" to "this is an actual retard who's gonna ask me where he can do the mario kart ride."More isolated towns I've been to that aren't tourists floods were still friendly, surprisingly very friendly in fact, but the shock I've had going back to Tokyo between 2019 and 2023 was pretty major. Even the hotel staff for the check in seemed like they didn't want want to deal with another retard when I walked in.I couldn't can't say with certainty whatever the feeling is because of the tourist flood or just covid aftershock, but considering the other places were still friendly, I'd have to guess it's the former. Tourists going from normalised to overbearing turned Tokyo into a cold place.
>>48112825Based. If the Japs can isolate themselves again perhaps they'll return to making kino.
>>48263909Cringe and unfunny
They now opened up "Nico'ru," basically liking of comments, to non-premium users (again). I feel a tinge of desperation from the higher-ups.
>>48276533I think I've completely ignored that feature since it was implemented.The pseudo-anonymous stream-of-consciousness, everyman nature of comments is a plus, and voting takes away from that.
fall of nnd is upon us, bilibili is winning
>>48277276China is winning. Period.
>>48277276>bilibili is winningDepends on what you mean by a win... Because if this deal (pic) goes through, Kadokawa will be bought by Sony, who in-turn has like high 5.22% stakes in Billibili - effectively having some level of high control in both companies. Not to mention Kadokawa having a lot of Chinese companies as subs + Chinese shareholders which makes the corporate web more complex.>>48277287Honestly you should not think about these things in nation-state terms. We are already in a level of globalization that's waaay beyond simple borders as norm.
>>48112891Honestly, a good move. Westerns flooding their site will skew views and algorithms based on western sensibilities and will end up ruining everything, like it already ruined anime industry
>>48277618interesting
So... any recommendations for a good free VPN that can actually connect to Japan by choice?
>>48277870yes but i dont like spoonfeeding
>>48277870 (Me)For people still looking, TunnelBear offers 2000MB per month and can connect to Japan by choice. Good enough for me, but if you want to hoard data then you should be using a paid service anyway. Any of them should work.Now I can go back to downloading shit from Seiga.
>>48277993>Tunnelbear>Now I can go back to downloading shit from Seiga.Honestly if it just that you could just make a disposable account and use one of the many openvpns. Just don't use it for sensitive transactions, and avoid when the traffic is high (meaning Japanese 18:00~24:00). >https://www.vpngate.net/EN/
>>48277276Honestly it's even worse than nico, though thanks to the recent changes on nico, not by much
>>48278170Ironically the only thing I use bilibili is to pirate rare Japanese (and sometimes other nations) 2000s~2010s TV-shows that have no DVDs available. User content isn't really that great, but sometimes there's cool fan animations.
