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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, at both the network level (by blocking IP ranges belonging to VPN services) and protocol level (ie. known handshake sequences for VPN software). but both can be easily bypassed with a few google searches.
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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.
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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…
Unfortunately the vpnhub site appears to have been hammered into the ground as of time of posting.
> “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.
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?
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.
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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.
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 ?
>but is it possible for ISPs to block particular VPNs ? yes, at both the network level (by blocking IP ranges belonging to VPN services) and protocol level (ie. known handshake sequences for VPN software). but both can be easily bypassed with a few google searches.
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