Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South

Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly, it might be a good thing long-run to have a higher percentage of users on VPNs. They aren’t a magic cure-all, but they do help make it safer to use untrusted networks and discourage some things on the service side, like geolocating and data-mining users based on IP.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m worried it will lead to bans of those though too.

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    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not that they won’t try, but it’s very difficult to blanket ban VPNs. There are very legitimate business reasons to use them and it isn’t necessarily easy for ISPs to distinguish between a “recreational” VPN connection and an employee VPN’ing into say, a work datacenter. Industry will kick up a massive fuss about it.

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      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hell, I VPN into my home network all the time to access my self hosted work applications, it’s 10x more secure than leaving ports open to the wider internet.

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      • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Would be hilarious if they tried. I wouldn’t put it past them.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was raised Rural. I can confirm.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think that it’s kind of globally-applicable.

      And I’ve wondered in the past whether the long-run for the Internet was always going to be people generally winding up with VPNs for similar reasons. I’m far from the first:

      The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

      – John Gilmore

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or tor

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tor is too slow to watch videos. Wouldn’t wanna get interrupted in the middle of jerking off

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