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Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2) (www.aylo.com)
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[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 9 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

You can probably block companies offering public VPN services.

But good luck blocking VPN in general.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago

It's not some theoretical topic, it's the reality for China, Russia, Iran. They do block commonly used VPN protocols, so people now use VPN with obfuscations. Some work, some doesn't, some stop working as time goes. So when people say "Ha-ha, I'll just use VPN", it will help you for some time but the trend is they will make it a problem for you, better start preparing before it happened.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Anything encrypted is blocked. Boom, done.

Is it stupid? Yes. Never stopped lawmakers.

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

How do you know if something is encrypted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

Or for more practical implementations: https://blog.frost.kiwi/ssh-over-https-tunneling/ (granted, this one uses normal looking encryption to hide hide maybe unwanted encypted traffic) https://nurdletech.com/linux-notes/ssh/via-http.html

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I knew HTTP would make a return without its brother TLS someday!

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There several sites I visit I have to fight with cause of VPN blocking.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

That isn't blocking VPNs, it's blocking requests from data centers. Important distinction