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Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days ago

VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.

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VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.

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Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 days ago
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  • @Etterra@discuss.online
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    176•4 days ago

    Political theater. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” is an easy win for politicians.

    • @0x0@lemmy.zip
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      109•4 days ago

      Plus an excuse to collect more data.

      • @loutr@sh.itjust.works
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        45•4 days ago

        Yeah the point is just to soften the populace to the idea. Our fucking PM covered for pedophile priests in a Catholic school 30 years ago, he doesn’t give any fuck about kids.

    • @pyrflie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      deleted by creator

    • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      5•4 days ago

      Except it’s fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

      • RiQuY
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        77•4 days ago

        If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.

        • @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          23•4 days ago

          Could just be their local internet quality. Which, still, not a VPN problem.

          • @FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr
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            4•4 days ago

            Sometimes routing between two IPs is fucked. Had that, and proxying to another location then to the destination again fixed it. Internet 😵

      • @mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14•3 days ago

        Video over Tor is pretty awful, simply due to the way Tor works; Bandwidth is inherently limited, because it’s shared by everyone using the network. Same reason you should avoid torrenting over Tor.

        But if your video is buffering over a VPN, you need to find a new VPN provider. Mine maxes out my gigabit connection.

        • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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          Are there going to be bandwidth problems with vpns when more countries block porn though?

          Like lots of France just joined them, and the rest of us lost a bunch of French exit nodes (at least for porn). The increase in subscribers should help expand bandwidth at big servers, but there’sa limit when we’re talking whole nations.

      • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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        6•4 days ago

        Why use Tor? It’s been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.

        • @JiminaMann@lemmy.world
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          5•3 days ago

          Can you elaborate on how tor is screwed?

          • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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            2•3 days ago

            An example: https://youtu.be/XDsLDhKG8Cs

        • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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          4•4 days ago

          It’s an easy proxy.

          • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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            1•3 days ago

            It doesn’t do the one thing it’s meant to do.

            • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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              2•3 days ago

              I mean, neither does the Web by now.

            • lurch (he/him)
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              1•3 days ago

              allow region blocked people to circumvent restrictions? AFAIK it still does that.

              • @muusemuuse@lemm.ee
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                1•3 days ago

                That’s not the sole purpose of it. The way it does it was what was important. And that method is flawed.

                • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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                  1•3 days ago

                  People using to to circumvent location based restrictions may not care about the anonymity feature of Tor. They just want pron. At least until the fascists start arresting viewers.

      • AmbitiousProcess
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        3•4 days ago

        My VPN’s perfectly fine. To be fair, it’s not a free plan of a VPN that’s heavily throttled, but I can even play multiplayer FPS games with only a few milliseconds of additional delay, and my overall max upload and download speed is almost exactly identical to when I have my VPN off.

      • @Lumisal@lemmy.world
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        3•4 days ago

        Could be worse. Could be you’re in the early 90s with only a 56k modem.

        • @rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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          11•4 days ago

          You’d have good games and no bullshit on your PC.

          • @coolmojo@lemmy.world
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            5•3 days ago

            And great LAN parties.

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