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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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[–] 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!