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

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Post by programbreeding »

stephenr wrote: post #77
esrauch wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difference is that essentially no one minds a guy glancing at their id and handing it back, and no one cares if your coworker happens to see you going into a bar. The law is a filter because of the obvious chilling effect: do you really want to risk an inevitable leak where your co-workers will potentially look up info about your porn habits tied to your real name?

> do you really want to risk an inevitable leak where your co-workers will potentially look up info about your porn habits tied to your real name Why would it have your 'habits' tied to it? It's meant to ensure you're over 18 or whatever age - what possible reason would it have to identify individual URLs a particular identity visited?

>what possible reason would it have to identify individual URLs a particular identity visited?

Money. Marketing. Targeted advertising. Etc, etc, etc. Pornhub (and others) are completely free and use more bandwidth than I can wrap my head around. How do you think they pay for that stuff?

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

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Post by charlieflowers »

fencepost wrote: post #45

The pricing on this seems out of line with other VPN providers unless I'm missing something. $12-14/month = $144/year give or take. Even if they do a "2 months free if you pay annually" it's still $120/year while something like privateinternetaccess is $7/mo, $40/year or $70/2 years. Unfortunately the vpnhub site appears to have been hammered into the ground as of time of posting.

Confusingly, later on the article says it is free to use.

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

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Post by theshrike79 »

the8472 wrote: post #79
fencepost wrote: post #45

The pricing on this seems out of line with other VPN providers unless I'm missing something. $12-14/month = $144/year give or take. Even if they do a "2 months free if you pay annually" it's still $120/year while something like privateinternetaccess is $7/mo, $40/year or $70/2 years. Unfortunately the vpnhub site appears to have been hammered into the ground as of time of posting.

Or you could just rent the cheapest cloud server you can find and install a VPN daemon on it. Scaleway is 2€/mo. The smallest AWS spot instances are comparable in price but more of a hassle.

AWS IP ranges have been blacklisted on all streaming sites for years now.

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

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Post by zulln »

herge wrote: post #7
zulln wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using a VPN for everything they have right to care though. All job-related traffic goes through it as well, hence potentially leaking sensitive stuff?

The VPN has as much a view in your traffic as your ISP or mobile carrier, for what it's worth.

I imagine most companies trust the ISP with sensitive company information more than they trust Pornhub. I am not saying one is more trustworthy than the other, but I am quite certain others do.

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

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Post by jeena »

tptacek wrote: post #33
admax88q wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would be interested of the reason because we've been fighting this successfully for a number of years with our clients IT departments (while we were smaller). They hired us to make the developement process better and one of the things we always found problematic was that when the software developers didn't have normal internet access (but instead tunneled everything through some bottleneck http proxy) they both lost the good developers because they were fed up with not being able to do their job efficently and thus the quality of their software went down.

A year ago we've been bought by a big company to help them do what we did untill then but on a much bigger scale. The first thing we did was to get rid of the restricted internet. And now we again help our customers (big car manufacturers) to make their processes better. And even for here every developer has free access to the Internet to be able to work efficiently.

But as I said in the beginning, I'm really interested in the reasons for this behaviour of those large companies. My suspission is that it's just easier for the IT department to work against the developers instead of helping them to do their job.

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

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Post by bdcravens »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #71
fencepost wrote: post #45

The pricing on this seems out of line with other VPN providers unless I'm missing something. $12-14/month = $144/year give or take. Even if they do a "2 months free if you pay annually" it's still $120/year while something like privateinternetaccess is $7/mo, $40/year or $70/2 years. Unfortunately the vpnhub site appears to have been hammered into the ground as of time of posting.

Wow that’s a lot to pay for this kind of thing. Maybe I’m the minority on here but I watch Tech shows on YouTube. Linus Sebastian is quite popular on there. He has been recommending https://www.privateinternetaccess.com and their prices are lower.

I've been using PIA for years. They even take Bitcoin if you want some additional anonymity.

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

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Post by bdcravens »

charlieflowers wrote: post #82
fencepost wrote: post #45

The pricing on this seems out of line with other VPN providers unless I'm missing something. $12-14/month = $144/year give or take. Even if they do a "2 months free if you pay annually" it's still $120/year while something like privateinternetaccess is $7/mo, $40/year or $70/2 years. Unfortunately the vpnhub site appears to have been hammered into the ground as of time of posting.

Confusingly, later on the article says it is free to use.

Free tier is ad-supported with slower speeds.

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

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Post by LinuxBender »

nailer wrote: post #32
brettz wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 implem…

It would be so much less overhead to require adult sites and user content driven sites to simply add the RTA adult header and put the responsibility on parents to use parental control software.

It looks like this:

    rating RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA
and it can be sent via http headers, or embeded in web pages.

Requiring people to register with PII is just asking for trouble.

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

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Post by DINKDINK »

geofft wrote: post #46
stephenr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh? A porn site company runs a porn filter? Surely the individual ISP's have devices in their DC that filter the specified things? Edit, so after reading - the filter is less a filter, and more mandated age-check verification? Isn't that like claiming a guy checking ID's at the door to a pub is an alcohol filter?

That's a pretty good analogy, because nobody thinks that bars employing bouncers to check ID is some sort of conspiracy or conflict-of-interest.

Strictly speaking, it is classified as a conflict of interest.
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