yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me!
Sorry…I blacked out, what are we talking about?
Texas residents using a VPN for porn
Can someone explain it to Europeans?
Several states with republican leadership have required identification to view sites that have “adult content”. You technically can still access it without a VPN in these states, but I’m not trusting these sites with personally identifying information. Depending on the state I think you have to upload an image of your ID and other information. It’s really sketchy.
What the fucking fuck. In Europe this would cause French and Germans combined beheading entire governments. One thing I want to keep to myself is my porn choices. Giving my ID to a porn site sounds like a big fucking NO
Thats odd. I seem to remember the UK’s IWF breaking Wikipedia trying to block a CD album image. Must have been an illusion
Could you theoretically fake the ID cards with image-generating AI?
I think they’re looked up to verify they’re authentic. I’m not certain, but I’m pretty sure that’s the case. If it isn’t then it’d be easier to just take an image of a real ID and modify it rather than using image generation to hope it comes out correct.
Oh man, this is a much better comparison.
It’s still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn’t banned, but it’s effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.
But this also allegedly targets “culture”, just like China’s great firewall. It’s pretty damn stupid.
Don’t forget Virginia!
I live close enough to Tennessee that I turn off my WiFi and let the cellular take me there haha.
Virginia living up to its name with the state mandated NoFap challenge.
Don’t forget Utah
There are 17 states that have passed or introduced bills requiring age verification for access to porn sites: New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, Oregon, Minnesota, South Dakota, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida.
What a joke. My home is WV and I’m currently in VA. Didn’t even notice either state had a porn ban. Get your fucking religion out of politics though.
I’m one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.
I’m thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven’t had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don’t need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I’d be cool with just one seat.
Anyone got recommendations?
Try WindScribe. You won’t regret it.
$69 for a yearly plan. They know what it’s being used for.
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I’d recommend proton vpn. They have a few other services like email and password managers but there free tier is more than adequate
Well, holy fuck! I already have a Protonmail account, so I guess all I need to do is download the VPN app. I’ll fuck with that, later. Thanks for reminding me this exists!
No problemo
I’m using Private Internet Access. It was purchased by a company some people think are sketchy, but they work well in my experience and are cheap. If you really need security that you trust, maybe go somewhere else. If you just need a VPN that works and is cheap, it’s an option.
I just heard that Express VPN was bought by a shady company, too. I wonder if it’s the same one.
EDIT: Yep. It’s the same one. Kape technologies. They are apparently pretty evil.
Mullvad VPN is my go-to. No nonsense and meets all of my needs.
I love the fact that you put money in monthly like putting money in a meter. Really makes it feel anonymous with the no username or passwords.
Hadn’t even heard of them. I’ll look into it. Thank you!
My recommendation is to run your own instance of something like OpenVPN on a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet tbh
While a good approach, this is not really possible for a majority of non-tech people.
Sure, I recognize that there are folks who won’t be able to pull it off, but there are also loads who can - And don’t know about options like OpenVPN. Figured it was worth a mention.
And Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn’t even work.
Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.
Admittedly, it’s not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I’m not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I’m certainly not going to do it for porn
You forgot the third car using a VPN to get all the content they’re actually paying for on all of their streaming apps
A 4th car is going to the highseas.
Baton down the hatches and raise me sails matey!
Baton
Batten
Maybe they were just really stubborn.
I just want to watch the Japanese Netflix anime drops. Is that so much to ask for natively?
Chinese citizens using VPN to access TikTok too.
Specifically American tiktok. The tiktok they have isn’t the same. Iirc It’s only educational stuff, and you get a time limit.
It is not American tiktok. It is tiktok for the world except China who owns tiktok.
You forgot there is a tram service to Lemmy
Meh, entirely different type of SM, what we really need is the defederated version of TT
But video is expensive so it probably won’t happen for a long time
Now if TT redoes their app to be defederated to evade US law that would be hilarious
TT is the defederated TT
I think you mean federated ;)
I saw a post for this service yesterday I think. I don’t remember the name of it or I’d post a link, but it is created now and I think it’s active, or will be soon. It’s only for short-form video though, like TikTok, which isn’t my style of content.
Supposedly Pixelfed or Peertube just added shorts.
A big issue with that is when I signed up to peertube 10 months ago, literally the only videos I could find were French language protestors.
I would have preferred if they kept shorts off.
If it gets people to start using it and uploading content overall it is a win, although my hope was that it would build out to be a PBS competitor
Americans who pluralize with an apostrophe.
mostly a mistake af habbit
Pointing out mistakes while misspelling yourself is always funny to me.
For serious. 😵💫🖕🏽
I think it’s perfectly acceptable with TLAs. Just using the lower case s makes it seem like it could be an extension of the short hand.
I’m using a VPN to byapass porn blocks while I’m stuck as an inpatient in hospital.
They’re gonna be real disappointed with the version of “Tiktok” available in China
TikTok isn’t banned in canada, or the UK, or a number of other english speaking non-US countries
There are…other countries? WHAT!? 🫨
I’ve got Chinese GenZ TikTok pegged as 10x more entertaining than American Boomer Facebook.
Why would they VPN to the version of the app that has less English speakers?
to learn? To experience something new? Monolingual life starts loosing it’s charm.
*losing
yeah, that’s… thanks for illustrating my point
I live to serve. Lol
I still fell like unless you want to learn Chinese specifically, the non Chinese version would explose you to more foreign languages. Guess its up to you, but I’d imagine they’d just VPN to the same verion they’re using now.
well now i wanna just cus i’m getting pushback
you’ve fallen for my trap card; the allure of forbidden fruit!
I don’t blame you, I play Genshin so Chinese tiktok would probably have some neat stuff
Hahaha.
using VPNs*
It’s the VPN’s service.
Anytime I see a misplaced apostrophe I assign some kind ownership to it. This one’s okay.
Dumbest meme format
Russians using VPN to access
gosuslugi in 2024telegram in 2018.Please, don’t even touch this. With our RKN and useless pinnocchios banning random things extrajudiciously, I’d be surprised if we’d have any access to the internet in 2026. For those without a government issued pass and active service in bot farms, I mean. If I’d get limited to local resources, I feel like I’d give up on internet altogether. Can’t discuss shit there without pseudo-trad weirdos chiming in.
It may be a major plus for the Internet as a whole if the cable is cut completely, but I feel like it’d only be cut for dissenting folks, while carriers of the official talking points wouldn’t ever get limited.
Tiktok and their inconsistent very sick snowflake moderation with punishing the appeals should be avoided. Ive stopped using it, deleted from my phone
嘿，宝贝，想换VPN吗？(Hey babe, you wanna swap VPNs?) 🥵
That’s kinda funny. Do people really use that pun?
Fun fact, VPNs are regulated by the state in China
What’s the point then?
Security and testing localization will be big use cases. But privacy and or using banned apps, no so much. They don’t call it the Great Firewall for nothing. ISPs, VPNs, etc.
If you want to use western social media , it’s not as simple as jumping into a VPN.
False sense of security. It will still provide some privacy against ad tracking.
Same in USA but a lot more secret. They for example don’t care what you download but will sure as hell care if you use it for something very bad. That how you see so many bad actors getting caught even hiding behind VPN/TOR. They will never use this in court of course, because they will have to reveal how it was done. No VPN/TOR or even your own server is 100% safe from the gov. Usually they have direct backdoors in data centers or hardware and software.
Same in Russia. I worked with a banking company that had a Russia office, and the company had to get government approval for the BOVPNs that were used.
that’s not how VPNs work
Regulated doesn’t mean they control all VPNs, it means they usually have laws requiring any use of VPN to be licensed, and usually is allowed for businesses rather than individuals. They also block via their firewall many providers. Of course, you could always use one illegally as long as traffic isn’t blocked. Just don’t get caught.
Sure it is. But it means that they can tell the VPNs to block the same stuff that everyone else is told to block.
“the VPNs” is not a thing when literally anyone’s connection can be a VPN for someone else and nobody else would know
Not in Hong Kong :)
Hong Kong is the cooler Daniel
Internet itself is regulated by the nation state.
