How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘
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Context: UK passed this online safety act thing a few days ago (source) where you have to verify your age on sites that might contain nsfw content and the checks involve stuff like uploading a photo of your face, ID or even your passport. if anything it's just making people more unsafe (look what happened with the Tea app which required similar verification (source)). ain't gonna dox myself to the government/companies and it's easily circumvented using TOR lol. fuck da system
But tor is slow af isn't it?
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But tor is slow af isn't it?
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.
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But tor is slow af isn't it?
Is aroubd 10-20 mbps now
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brit
frenchfryenjoyer
Sadly, we do call skinny chips "french fries" over here.
Also, the fry in your gif isn't french
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But tor is slow af isn't it?
its been quite fast for a while now. i often get around 3-4 MB/s (24-32Mbps) downloading files.
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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.
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
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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.
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.
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My bad, I wasn’t specific.
I looking for something comprehensive for non-techies with a desire to be safe on the Webster.this is a good guide on how to use the browser safely:
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But tor is slow af isn't it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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 on the other, the dark web 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.
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brit
frenchfryenjoyer
Thin chips = french fries
Thick chips = chips
What Americans call chips = crisps
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But tor is slow af isn't it?
Depends on the site, for Lemmy it seems just a lil bit slower
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Context: UK passed this online safety act thing a few days ago (source) where you have to verify your age on sites that might contain nsfw content and the checks involve stuff like uploading a photo of your face, ID or even your passport. if anything it's just making people more unsafe (look what happened with the Tea app which required similar verification (source)). ain't gonna dox myself to the government/companies and it's easily circumvented using TOR lol. fuck da system
Coolest guy in the world
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There is also VPN, but I hear they are trying to outlaw that in the UK too.
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.
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Coolest guy in the world
Coolest Cat in the world
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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
Unfortunately that's not how it works.
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this is a good guide on how to use the browser safely:
Thank you
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OBFS4 bridges.
Also the slower snowflake protocol that masks traffic as a video call protocol
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Context: UK passed this online safety act thing a few days ago (source) where you have to verify your age on sites that might contain nsfw content and the checks involve stuff like uploading a photo of your face, ID or even your passport. if anything it's just making people more unsafe (look what happened with the Tea app which required similar verification (source)). ain't gonna dox myself to the government/companies and it's easily circumvented using TOR lol. fuck da system
80% sure that's a racoon, not a cat
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Is it possible to choose an exit node? Because if the exit node's in UK, it presumably doesn't help with the geoblocking aspect.
It could be possible if they decide to implement that, since the TOR browser tells you the circuit (The path your connection takes) it could theoretically just request a new circuit until it gets an exit node that matches your preference. At least with the most basic implementation that's what could be done, not very optimized though.
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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.
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
