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Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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Sort of like when Amazon entered cloud space. For PH it makes sense due to them already have infra to support it especially video streaming. The challenge with privacy VPNs is a matter of trust.

I think if more peopled used TOR, and also ran public exit nodes and/or relays, it will work better than private VPN companies.

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub. I had no idea that PornHub is in charge of filtering adult content for the UK government. Got any more info about this relationship?

Duckduckgo 'Mindgeek age verification UK'

Mindgeek has an age verification product to comply with the UK law but by no means is in charge of age verification in the UK, there are several competitors with their own age verification products.

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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This is hilarious. Is PornHub still one of the largest Google Cloud customers?

A company of that size who's core product is video streaming is (or should) have some way of abstracting the CDN(s) away from most other stuff so that they can shuffle things around in real time or close to real time.

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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post #9
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one should care as long as you do your job.

I can think of many things one might do on a VPN that an employer might and probably should care about

I can also think of many things a bad employee might do that the employer should probably care about.

But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy.

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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post #6

> “VPNhub is free and unlimited, anonymous and easy to use, [...] a good number of [people] use [VPNs] to circumvent and bypass restrictions to access adult content. It only makes sense that they use Pornhub’s.” So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub.

>So wait, as a UK citizen I can use Pornhub's VPN to circumvent the UK Government's "Porn Filter", a system that's run by..... Pornhub. I had no idea that PornHub is in charge of filtering adult content for the UK government. Got any more info about this relationship?

A scheme, where other porn companies can pay them - and if they can't afford it, go out of business.

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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post #21
post #5

Sort of like when Amazon entered cloud space. For PH it makes sense due to them already have infra to support it especially video streaming. The challenge with privacy VPNs is a matter of trust.

I think if more peopled used TOR, and also ran public exit nodes and/or relays, it will work better than private VPN companies.

Afaik, Tor is not recommended for high bandwidth activities like bittorrent and streaming. I'm sure it works, but probably would break the network if too much of it went on. I'd be happy to know this never was the case or changed. Its the reason I never got on the tor bandwagon.

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

#27
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can think of many things one might do on a VPN that an employer might and probably should care about

I can also think of many things a bad employee might do that the employer should probably care about. But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy.

> But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their job without monitoring everything they do then you should just fire them and hire someone more trustworthy.

Trust but verify, as Reagan used to say. We give even more power to the presidents and senators, but imagine what would happen in there was not plenty of people around to monitor what they did with that power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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post #18

It might be a good time to mention that Algo VPN now supports Ubuntu 18.04, many new cloud providers, and soon (days) will have Wireguard support. https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

What advantages does this have over something like OpenVPN Road Warrior installer? https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install

Re: Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app

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post #21
post #5

Sort of like when Amazon entered cloud space. For PH it makes sense due to them already have infra to support it especially video streaming. The challenge with privacy VPNs is a matter of trust.

I think if more peopled used TOR, and also ran public exit nodes and/or relays, it will work better than private VPN companies.

The fundamental problem with this is that it's charity / freeloading. I don't mean this as an ethical complaint, just that the economic incentive isn't there.

I could imagine cryptocurrency potentially offering a solution to this which solves both issues of trust and economics, but it would be a challenge to guarantee its security.

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