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Insert meme of calendar guy turning 2020 page to 1984.
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it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.
IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china
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What about all the footy fetishists?
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The punchline is porn.
dude porn lmao
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Parental controls: exist
Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?
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I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
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To save costs on VPN services, Rsync the wank bank for all your mates to share. This month it's Daves turn so expect lots of scat but I did put in a request for incest too.
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Saw a comment saying the ID process accepts any ol' ID sample pic you find from a quick image search online.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Oh yeah I should try that. Wanted to try an AI image for the selfie and discord failed to load the service to verify age. Lost interest at that point.
More interested in things that blocked the UK than things that demand ID tbh.
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I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
As a new user of proton... Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven't heard anything negative.
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As a new user of proton... Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven't heard anything negative.
Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments
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"Footy"?
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Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments
Thanks for replying. What do you use instead?
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Thanks for replying. What do you use instead?
I'm going to switch to Mullvad. Just need to sit down and do it. Maybe this weekend.
And sorry, it was the CEO, not CTO. Here's a source
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
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Parental controls: exist
Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?
What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?
Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking
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"Footy"?
Short for football
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I'm going to switch to Mullvad. Just need to sit down and do it. Maybe this weekend.
And sorry, it was the CEO, not CTO. Here's a source
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
Thanks bud.
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What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?
Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking
The irony being this sort of thing will make people more used to sharing very sensitive information online and more likely to fall for phishing attempts. Like the parents who couldn't figure out parental controls in the first place probably are.
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IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china
Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.
China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don't want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.
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I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
Listen man. There are no non sketchy VPN there never has been there never ever will be. Period. All you can do is the least worst one and that is proton today. Might be someone else tomorrow. If anyone tries to tell you anything different they are a liar or ignorant.
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it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.
They don't turn a blind eye. It's just that the VPN's that work through China's firewall do so over ports that the entire internet uses, like 443 (https). They could filter everything, but it'd be a loooot more resource intensive to filter all internet traffic by destination/content instead of only doing that with extra ports that extra services like VPNs normally use.
... and as others have pointed out, there ARE valid reasons to allow some VPNs. Forcing them to jump through hoops to function is no skin off their back, while properly filtering all traffic would be disasterous for them beyond the expense.
