There is also VPN, but I hear they are trying to outlaw that in the UK too.
How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘
Submitted 1 day ago by frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world to [deleted]
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Booboofinget@lemmy.world 1 day ago
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Yea I know. if they ban VPN’s and block access to the TOR download website I’ve got TOR saved on USB’s and I’ll send a copy to anyone who wants it lmao
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Tor is loud and every ISP sees encrypted traffic that screams “I dunno, but it’s tor traffic.”
It’s no free pass when the government is pressuring ISPs to tattle on encrypted traffic.
Be careful y’all. Don’t be calm, but be Fing careful, too.
rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
make sure to get some bridge adresses too! without bridges, ur ISP can still see that ur using Tor
ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They have ruled out banning vpns for now but that’s not to say that they won’t just U-turn or that whoever gets in next won’t ban them.
The UK’s Trump whose party is currently the most popular in the UK and may win the next election (I hate this) has pledged to repeal this law but he’s well known for making promises he has no intention of keeping and this law is very convenient as a means of censorship.
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
As good at keeping his promise as Trump is! Which, of course, is why eggs are cheap, there are no more wars, and we have the full Epstine files. /S
ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Its possible to still use one with obfuscation, similar to how it’s done in China. Don’t get caught!
Denjin@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Whatever the meme is I can’t see it because lemmings.world blocks access to the UK now 🤣
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I used a VPN yesterday to see how it looks in the UK. Seems a lot of porn sites don’t give a shit about UK and don’t require any verification. So one again, just the law abiding sites are punished while kids are pushed towards the lawless ones.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
are you telling me the thing that’s meant to harvest personal data isn’t useful as a child protective tool?
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
shoo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Thin chips = french fries
Thick chips = chips
What Americans call chips = crisps
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sadly, we do call skinny chips “french fries” over here.
Also, the fry in your gif isn’t french 🍟
PmMeFrogMemes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
cool meme but there’s a sign for no P. why isn’t man peeing
bricklove@midwest.social 1 day ago
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 day ago
abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fool, watch your tongue. You’re speaking about thin the king of par
pitaya@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
How do you know he isn’t
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
posts meme about what it means to be using TOR as a Brit rn. On an instance that needs TOR or a VPN to access from the UK
Ha! I see what you did there.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Everybody should download Tor Snowflake so we can help people circumvent TOR censorship.
myotheraccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
80% sure that’s a racoon, not a cat
JackbyDev@programming.dev 18 hours ago
You are incorrect. That is a tortoise shell cat.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
negative. it’s a meat popsicle.
Iambus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But tor is slow af isn’t it?
Part4@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Yeah using tor broswer is generally slow - adjust expectation and see it as a necessary tradeoff for some privacy and it is fine.
Further than that, browsing the ‘dark web’ has mainly been a boring/frustrating experience, but going forward, between tech oligarch-surveillance-capitalists co-option of the web on one side, and increasingly authoritarian Western governments, it might be the only place to get an online experience something like I was told the internet was going to be a few decades ago.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Depends on the site, for Lemmy it seems just a lil bit slower
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Is aroubd 10-20 mbps now
rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
its been quite fast for a while now. i often get around 3-4 MB/s (24-32Mbps) downloading files.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I2p
Or using a vpn your friend jn the empire paid for so ice wouldn’t murder her for looking at porn that’s too gay.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Coolest guy in the world
YourDad@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Coolest Cat in the world
bstix@feddit.dk 1 day ago
It bothers me that the sunglasses are in front of the diagonal. That diagonal is also the wrong way.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It would be great to have a restriction stronger than “are you 18 years or older?” so I can let my kids roam the internet without care. But this is a bit backwards.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Or just be a good parent and don’t rely on censorship laws to be your babysitter.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 31 minutes ago
Obviously, but not everyone is a good parent. What happens to those kids?
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There are plenty of options for blocking unwanted material from kids.
This is a leap towards removing any anonymity or privacy online so you can be punished for wrongthink - there is nothing here which helps protect children any better than what was already in place.
We should always be wary of laws being passed in the name of “protecting the children”, because often they are used to justify government overreach, censorship, and good old fashioned authoritarianism.
Parents should educate themselves on how to curate a healthy online experience for their child, and I dare say maybe don’t shove in iPad in their face from being a baby just to keep them quiet.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
… There has been. It’d called blocklists. UK specifically even had it at the IP level, but excluding that there’s extensions that also block that stuff. There’s actually many ways to block that stuff.
Schal330@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There were restrictions in the UK before this latest measure got put in place, ISP providers provide it so parents could manage it. But my guess is a large proportion of parents were either too stupid to use, didn’t care, or simply didn’t know. Broadband parental control.
jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Low-key if you’re that incompetent you don’t know about any kind of parental blocking you shouldn’t have kids in the first place. We really don’t need more stupid in the gene pool
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Unfortunately that’s not how it works.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 24 minutes ago
I just hope they won’t move toward the “oh, you use encryption? Let’s see how it protects you from solitary in jail” step too fast.
And no, I’m not sarcastic, I’m worried.