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The problem is that once it will be normal to request IDs for porn, the same will be extended to everything else with excuses like “let’s do it for the kids” or “if you don’t have anything to hide…”.
VPNs… yeah sure, until there will be a crackdown on those too.
My VPN is in Switzerland, they have strong protective laws, for now.
Guess we'll all have to download and prepare to share!?!
Good luck. Even China isn't able to fully crack down on VPNs or Tor.
Just them trying hurts a ton tho.
it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.
IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china
Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.
China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don't want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.
There are too many ways around it to viably block VPNs and Tor. Both offer bridge services that don't look like VPNs and can come from different places.
They don't turn a blind eye. It's just that the VPN's that work through China's firewall do so over ports that the entire internet uses, like 443 (https). They could filter everything, but it'd be a loooot more resource intensive to filter all internet traffic by destination/content instead of only doing that with extra ports that extra services like VPNs normally use.
... and as others have pointed out, there ARE valid reasons to allow some VPNs. Forcing them to jump through hoops to function is no skin off their back, while properly filtering all traffic would be disasterous for them beyond the expense.
Parental controls: exist
Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?
What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?
Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking
The irony being this sort of thing will make people more used to sharing very sensitive information online and more likely to fall for phishing attempts. Like the parents who couldn't figure out parental controls in the first place probably are.
Is there a joke I'm missing?
I think the UK recently enacted a law requiring photo ID for accessing porn sites. A VPN can get around this.
To save costs on VPN services, Rsync the wank bank for all your mates to share. This month it's Daves turn so expect lots of scat but I did put in a request for incest too.
What's the schedule on airdropping porn mags into the UK woods?
Footy?
Football.
Sick skateboard footage taken with a $100 camcorder and a wide angle lens.
Stackin footy refers to the action of going out and filming yourself and friends skateboard for video parts.
You sarcastic bastard, that was a beautifully crafted reply. Also, TIL
Fussy
What are you, German?
Football I would guess
Football aka soccer
Saw a comment saying the ID process accepts any ol' ID sample pic you find from a quick image search online.
1 million McLovins beating their meat while the government watches from the cuck chair.
Oh yeah I should try that. Wanted to try an AI image for the selfie and discord failed to load the service to verify age. Lost interest at that point.
More interested in things that blocked the UK than things that demand ID tbh.
Some ask you to move your eyes or turn your head so a blender model is better for that
I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
Mullvad
mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.
you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.
just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.
The reason they disabled this was it was a possible privacy leak. This means if you are using a VPN that enables port forwarding, you might be at risk.
As a new user of proton... Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven't heard anything negative.
Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments
Thanks for replying. What do you use instead?
I'm going to switch to Mullvad. Just need to sit down and do it. Maybe this weekend.
And sorry, it was the CEO, not CTO. Here's a source
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
FYI it's not like he's pro-MAGA or anything. He's a known liberal supporter in fact. All he did was tweet that Gail Slater was a good nomination. Personally, I think it's a good thing to praise one's political enemies on the rare occasion they do something good. Here's an article with a deeper look.
But VPN to the UK is one of the best ways to watch football.