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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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Post by w0m »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #15
mtgx wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn't the porn filter supposed to be enabled by default, but optional for adults? As in the adults could change whether or not they could see the porn, at will? I believe there was some bureaucracy involved and maybe a "porn tax" you had to pay to disable the filter, but maybe this VPN service effectively solves both of those problems.

> maybe this VPN service effectively solves both of those problems. Sure, for the low, low price of $12/month.

> VPNhub is free and unlimited, anonymous and easy to use, ...

Though I didn't actually RTFM, was posted elsewhere here.

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

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Post by nailer »

brettz wrote: post #22
nailer wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/porn-age-verificati...

> AgeID, has been developed by MindGeek, a company that also owns several pornographic websites including Pornhub, RedTube and YouPorn.

> AgeID currently uses official documents such as driver's licences and passports to verify a person's age - but submitting a mobile number tied to a contract phone could be another option.

> The tool is due to be implemented from April 2018 across all adult sites within the UK in accordance with The Digital Economy Act 2017 that was laid out by the government.

It will be regulated by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

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

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Post by tptacek »

admax88q wrote: post #24
NickLamp wrote: 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.

There is basically no IT shop at a large company that operates this way, and there's a reason for that.

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

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Post by tptacek »

antihero wrote: post #28
dguido wrote: 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

It's packaged and maintained by security experts, and doesn't use OpenVPN.

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

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

Assuming that people were using a VPN to browse pornography, doesn't the ownership of this VPN by a Porn hosting company kind of eliminate the anonymity benefits of using it?

I'm also confused by why the gentleman in the ad was going to browse PornHub in a crowded coffee shop while waiting on his coffee.

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

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Post by aaomidi »

globuous wrote: post #29

My parents live in Dubai and had a VPN for VoIPing, but recently the VPN stopped working. I'm terrible at networking and don't really know how all of this works, but is it possible for ISPs to block particular VPNs ?

Yes it is.

Either just blocking the IP or using DPI.

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

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Post by DanBC »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #35

Assuming that people were using a VPN to browse pornography, doesn't the ownership of this VPN by a Porn hosting company kind of eliminate the anonymity benefits of using it? I'm also confused by why the gentleman in the ad was going to browse PornHub in a crowded coffee shop while waiting on his coffee.

Some people don't care about anonymity, but only need to evade ISP filters.

For example, I use tor to access torrent sites that have been blocked by ISPs after high court orders in the UK. I have no interests in the privacy aspects of tor for that use. I just want to get around the filter.

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

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Post by gnode »

globuous wrote: post #29

My parents live in Dubai and had a VPN for VoIPing, but recently the VPN stopped working. I'm terrible at networking and don't really know how all of this works, but is it possible for ISPs to block particular VPNs ?

Yes, as long as they can recognise them. It's possible to selectively reveal IPs to customers, so an attacking ISP would need the perspective of multiple users to find all VPN hosts. At an extreme, ISPs could run a whitelist instead of a blacklist (allowing connections only to approved hosts; denying by default). It's possible for services to be run on the same IPs / ports as legitimate services, forcing an ISP to choose between blocking both or none. An example of this is Telegram's use of AWS IPs, which when blocked by Russian ISPs caused disruption to other services. ( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/17/russia_blocks_googl... )

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

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Post by rocgf »

globuous wrote: post #29

My parents live in Dubai and had a VPN for VoIPing, but recently the VPN stopped working. I'm terrible at networking and don't really know how all of this works, but is it possible for ISPs to block particular VPNs ?

Perfectly possible. If it's possible for China to ban Google and for Turkey to ban Wikipedia, you can be sure that an ISP can block a VPN. :) All they have to do is bad a certain range of IP addresses that correspond to that VPN provider.

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

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Post by Chardok »

globuous wrote: post #29

My parents live in Dubai and had a VPN for VoIPing, but recently the VPN stopped working. I'm terrible at networking and don't really know how all of this works, but is it possible for ISPs to block particular VPNs ?

Yes, but most paid VPNs have several different servers and ports to choose from for this very reason. Its been a while but Private Internet Access' chat support was very helpful in troubleshooting my ISP throttling my VPN connections.
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