Buy those VPN shares, lol
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Uk is even more puritanical than the US,
They're already blocking states in the US.
That's where the puritans came from.
They fled Britain and stayed in Holland a few years first.
Apparently according to the users here I2P is a good tool, so any good guides on I2P ?
Would appreciate it. Been meaning to learn about I2P for a long time.
They want to stop us from gooning This is how it starts Then they move onto full internet censorship
Yes, porn is basically the "canary of the coal mine" of the internet & please use "masturbation", we are the sane ones here.
What vpn obfuscations do you use? Because you know they'll block vpn next.
They fully can't, there's too many legitimate reasons that their corporate overlords use it for, the most you'll get is loud filibuster about "we'll totally do that!" until the topic gets forgotten.
Also, my personal conspiracy is that someone important in the gov owns some secret stocks and shares in a VPN company and this was very much a cash grab from that person.
Again, that's not some theoretical topic. They can block most VPNs, they do so in China, Russia, Iran. And there are no riots on the streets, their corporate overlords don't do anything against it. One of the reasons is that they do allow ipsec for corporate clients. Are you a corporate client? Do you use ipsec for vpn? Are there riots on the streets for this censorship instance?
You think the UK could?
The "tech experts" in government are fucking idiots, almost every single one of them. The most I think they'd be capable of asking providers nicely to follow their rules and then going "hahaha, no", same as happened for every other time.
And I know for a fact that those blocks in China and Russia don't work, cause I talk to a Russian on the daily (she wants to get the fuck out, but hasn't got enough money)
And one major difference, it's very very very easy to form a company in the UK, it's literally a small fee and a form that takes 30-60 minutes to fill in
You can probably block companies offering public VPN services.
But good luck blocking VPN in general.
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.
There several sites I visit I have to fight with cause of VPN blocking.
That isn't blocking VPNs, it's blocking requests from data centers. Important distinction
Anything encrypted is blocked. Boom, done.
Is it stupid? Yes. Never stopped lawmakers.
I knew HTTP would make a return without its brother TLS someday!
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
Why did your politicians become right-wing grifters? Genuine question.
Sometimes you can bait leftists into "taking the moral high ground"...
And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter
They don't need those wankers!
I’m actually a little concerned some of porn torrenting communities aren’t ready for the jump to i2p yet. Gaytorrents, for example, seems to think this all being blown out of proportion and couldn’t possibly effect them.
What specific knowledge you have
There are sages all around us. Sometimes tho ... Asking for their wisdom comes with a curse.
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