VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.
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Are you embarrassed you look at porn? There's plenty of ways to manage without an internet connection. Go grab a compilation torrent.
Even if all these sites went verification tonight, you'd still be able to privately jerk off to whatever it is you want to hide so bad.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Torrents are even worse without a VPN. Ever heard of https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ ?
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You horny bastards
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Peak French stupidity, this isn't about protecting kids - it's about building surveillance infrastructure. Back in 2024, critics already called this the foundation for a "Great Firewall of France". Once you have the legal framework to block websites and force ISPs to implement monitoring, mission creep is inevitable.
The technical approach is laughably naive. They're essentially creating a centralized system that could easily become a database of citizen sexual preferences. Even with their "double anonymity," you're still creating digital fingerprints and metadata trails.
Most importantly, it won't work. Kids will just use VPNs - the same way adults are already doing. You're not protecting anyone; you're just pushing everyone toward circumvention tools while normalizing government control over what adults can access online.
It's perfectly French because it combines maximum bureaucratic complexity with zero practical benefit, all while creating new opportunities for state overreach. Classic.
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Democracy and general Egalitarianism is so 2008. Authoritarianism is what's hot now.
Democracy and general Egalitarianism is so 2008
Bold of you to assume it ever was!
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ménage à trois
Should be "plan à trois" I believe
I have no idea what is correct French, but the first phrase is the one that is used in English, I have never heard the second
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After the big purge of some years ago, PornHub has became useless. The good real videos are elsewhere.
They removed a lot of videos that were perfectly legal and fine
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And now they want to keep doing the job of the parents and forbid "social network" to kids 15 and under.
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I want to watch one with Marine Le Porn
Deepfakes are bad
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I have no idea what is correct French, but the first phrase is the one that is used in English, I have never heard the second
Alright! I'm a French speaker and I've never heard "ménage à trois". It could be correct, but that's old language. I believe "plan à trois" is the new thing we say.
Good to know!
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I guess this bodes well for Proton becoming increasingly a Google One products replacement with more users potentially paying
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Sexual desire is one thing. Pornography is another. Porn is evil.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Believe it or not, there's nuance in the world. Not everything is good or evil.
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Torrents are even worse without a VPN. Ever heard of https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ ?
Given that I torrent without a VPN and it had nothing on there, and it also got my location wrong by over 500km, I dont think I'm too worried.
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Given that I torrent without a VPN and it had nothing on there, and it also got my location wrong by over 500km, I dont think I'm too worried.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If you're on private trackers there won't be anything
Location is estimated based on ISP. Always trash
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Alright! I'm a French speaker and I've never heard "ménage à trois". It could be correct, but that's old language. I believe "plan à trois" is the new thing we say.
Good to know!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Steal language fragments AND butcher them, it's the English way!
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Believe it or not, there's nuance in the world. Not everything is good or evil.
Irrelevant to what I said.
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I think the oscillation described people's activity time. Over the course of a day, people who would register for a VPN are much more likely to do so during the evening, because during the day they are busy with work. So you observer on a daily basis a peak like this.
Such charts are very common with services used daily. For example, social media usage in a given region often has a peak during the morning, a big peak during lunch time, and in general goes up after work time.
Of course not everyone works at the same time, but a majority of people have more or less the same work times, so we observe the peaks.
You are right, thanks! I misread the graph and thought it was a 4 cycles per day, which was puzzling me, but is indeed just a daily oscillation
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Its on both sides of the relationship, parent and porn provider. Same as with alcohol and tobacco, if you don't have parents doing their part, those kids end up with that stuff anyways.
Brick and mortar shops aren't comparable to websites, and I don't know why you keep trying to compare them. The places that sell alcohol and tobacco aren't asking me to upload a digital version of my legal identification to some cloud-backed database. They're just manually checking a date and a picture. Most places I buy from don't even make me physically hand over my ID, I can just show it to them without it ever leaving my possession.
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I'd argue that "plus fort" would mean "harder" in this context but I'm not an expert
Agreed. I tend toward more literal translations for instruction/explanation -- it made things stick better for me when learning Spanish. But, yes, in context "harder" is a definitely a more useful translation.
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ménage à trois
Should be "plan à trois" I believe
My understanding is that ménage à trois says the three are 'living together' with the sex being implied via innuendo, whereas plan à trois is more directly about the sex act itself.
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Steal language fragments AND butcher them, it's the English way!
We retaliate by butchering English when speaking it
