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VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.

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    Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic

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    • F [email protected]

      Out of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?

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      As one headline put it "PornHub pulls out of France".

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      • R [email protected]

        That'll be really slow.

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        Can confirm, used DNS proxying to bypass cruise ship WiFi paywall once. It worked, but god damn did it send me into dialup flashback lmao

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        • O [email protected]

          Blocking porn has got to be the most "why even bother" thing

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          It's not about blocking porn.

          It's always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

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          • F [email protected]

            I blame the French for 120 days of Sodom burning my eyeballs, and I just skimmed the Wikipedia article. One of them chose to print that instead of burning the notes. Anyways, why is the hub being blocked in France?

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            Same reason it’s blocked in Florida.

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              Source

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              If you at all think that people can be addicted to social media, you could draw a correlation from this to porn addiction.

              I know a lot of you either don’t think porn can be addictive and/or don’t think it can have negative effects on society.

              Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

              EDIT: I’m gonna have to do an experiment and see if I get more downvotes for saying negative things about porn or positive things about Israel. Unfortunately I think it’d be pretty close.

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              • R [email protected]

                If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.

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                Could just be their local internet quality. Which, still, not a VPN problem.

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                • E [email protected]

                  Anyone with more than two brain cells to click together could have told them this would happen. Some of them did. Not that they would/did listen.

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                  Ah yes, chat control, the crackdown on encryption, backdoors, etc., all forgotten? So now thousands of French people are deliberately using VPNs for something that is now illegal. Well, the politicians won't take advantage of this to take action against VPNs and encryption... To protect the children, of course...

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                  • R [email protected]

                    BTW, who even had the brilliant idea to block pr0n for French of all people?

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                    You can say porn here on lemmy

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                    • R [email protected]

                      Except it's fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

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                      Why use Tor? It's been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.

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                        Except it's fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

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                        Could be worse. Could be you're in the early 90s with only a 56k modem.

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                          wow, didn't expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn. 😬

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                          Everywhere has religious people that think they deserve to control others.

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                          • M [email protected]

                            Why use Tor? It's been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.

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                            It's an easy proxy.

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                            • L [email protected]

                              Could be worse. Could be you're in the early 90s with only a 56k modem.

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                              You'd have good games and no bullshit on your PC.

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                              • venusaur@lemmy.worldV [email protected]

                                If you at all think that people can be addicted to social media, you could draw a correlation from this to porn addiction.

                                I know a lot of you either don’t think porn can be addictive and/or don’t think it can have negative effects on society.

                                Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

                                EDIT: I’m gonna have to do an experiment and see if I get more downvotes for saying negative things about porn or positive things about Israel. Unfortunately I think it’d be pretty close.

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                                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eFNRKEROw&t=21

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                                  wow, didn't expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn. 😬

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                                  We have our own homegrown bigots, thank you

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                                    Also, when in France, who needs porn when you have Eva Green?

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                                      It's not about blocking porn.

                                      It's always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

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                                      It's not about that either. It's about connecting photo ID to browsing profiles and deanonymising the internet.

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                                      • S [email protected]

                                        Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic

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                                        Wait, this can't just be another useless DNS blocking, or is it?

                                        Edit: Didn't get the joke first lol

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                                          The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

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                                          There will be a lot of businesses who feel the (justified) need to hide the entrypoint to their infrastructure behind a VPN.

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