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Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by dotnet00 »

DefineOutside wrote: post #31
kmfrk wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mullvad is the best, but last I saw, they had to disable port forwarding due to bad actors ruining it for everyone else. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215 They also work with Tailscale which makes per-device setup easier: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tailscale-has-partnered-with-mul... . Tailscale was using a bit too much of my iPhone battery last I tried it out, but they're at least aware of it.

After mullvad disabled port forwarding, I switched to AirVPN and it works fine. I trust it slightly less than Mullvad but I'm avoiding copyright trolls, not three letter agencies.

I've been using AirVPN for a few years now, seems fairly trustworthy so far.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by nanocode »

thriftwy wrote: post #26

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What you wrote sounds a bit like "As a minor I have lived in asbestos building and I can assure you I was not harmed". How do you know?

As far as I know, there are many scientific studies that disprove what you've said - and that porn has, in fact, a harmful effect on young minds. Of course there are many other harmful things that we nevertheless accept, like alcohol, cars or cigarettes. So maybe we can, as a society, decide that letting kid watch porn is OK and not worth the alternative (privacy intruding regulations). But arguing that it's not harmful at all is not, I believe, scientifically justified.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by jwells89 »

bradly wrote: post #20

Also it is extremely common in middle and high school to use VPNs to get around school network restrictions.

Though, circumvention of these things isn’t always even that involved, depending on the competency of IT.

At the religious private high school I attended, all it took to make a student a “hacker” was popping open Internet Options on the computer lab’s XP boxes and disabling the proxy they were using. Had to sneakily do this sometimes not to view blocked stuff, but to just have a working internet connection to complete assignments with because the proxy service was provided by some terribly run local company that must’ve been three Staples special Celeron Compaq Presarios and a Linksys router in a shack somewhere, because they were constantly having outages.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by leeoniya »

samatman wrote: post #59
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #27

Anecdote: I stayed in the Airbnb of an (obviously gay) couple in the South-Eastern very conservative Turkish city of Mersin many years ago. The absolute joy they had when I showed them how to set up 1.1.1.1 on their Android TV, phones, and laptops… so they could watch unrestricted gay porn in their heavily censored and state-controlled slice of the World Wide Web… I still get a virtual greeting card from them once in…

Reminds me of a... peculiarity in Turkey. Men are required to serve a mandatory term in the military, but are exempt if they're homosexual. However, to prevent this being used as a loophole to evade service, the men in question must prove that they're gay. This has resulted in the Turkish military having a very large collection of amateur gay porn.

this is basically that family guy episode where Quagmire tries to get out of his marriage to a hooker.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by fragmede »

donatj wrote: post #50

Tailscale exit node on a cheap vps and you're golden. Well as long as the stuff you're doing is "legal". It's still traceable back to you.

How well do subpoenas work across international borders, especially when the charge isn't illegal in the recieving jurisdiction?

(asking for a friend, obvs)

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Post by phillc73 »

miki123211 wrote: post #49
bradly wrote: post #20

Also it is extremely common in middle and high school to use VPNs to get around school network restrictions.

That must be a US thing, over here in Europe, most people just use hotspots (or cellular data) instead. That was a thing even back in my day, when LTE availability was not a given and cellular packages were much less generous.

Maybe it's also a generational thing. In the 90s, I remember running my own squid proxy on a remote shared box somewhere, in order to circumvent "things."

Granted, today, if it was just getting around general network restrictions via blacklist, then tethering is very convenient.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by [deleted] »

cayde wrote: post #57
miki123211 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That must be a US thing, over here in Europe, most people just use hotspots (or cellular data) instead. That was a thing even back in my day, when LTE availability was not a given and cellular packages were much less generous.

Tethering is idiot expensive in USA. Every provider will DPI and block it or throttle it. It's awful.

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Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by acchow »

chpatrick wrote: post #42
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #27

Anecdote: I stayed in the Airbnb of an (obviously gay) couple in the South-Eastern very conservative Turkish city of Mersin many years ago. The absolute joy they had when I showed them how to set up 1.1.1.1 on their Android TV, phones, and laptops… so they could watch unrestricted gay porn in their heavily censored and state-controlled slice of the World Wide Web… I still get a virtual greeting card from them once in…

That way the ISP still sees what you're doing though.

Only the DNS lookups. Not the content of what you’re viewing over https. Everything after domain name is encrypted
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