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Wikipedia adds the temporary accounts feature in response to the Heritage Foundation’s threats to dox their editors (lemmy.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Point of clarification: I said that you can't use a VPN, and that's because those IPs are blocked. As noted, you need to ask for a special exception, which for most people isn't navigable and may not even be granted without a good stated reason and/or trust built up through good edits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh whoops, my bad I must have been reading too quickly. Thanks for clarifying!