Except it’s fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN
Political theater. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” is an easy win for politicians.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
RiQuY@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Could just be their local internet quality. Which, still, not a VPN problem.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 3 days ago
Sometimes routing between two IPs is fucked. Had that, and proxying to another location then to the destination again fixed it. Internet 😵
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Video over Tor is pretty awful, simply due to the way Tor works; Bandwidth is inherently limited, because it’s shared by everyone using the network. Same reason you should avoid torrenting over Tor.
But if your video is buffering over a VPN, you need to find a new VPN provider. Mine maxes out my gigabit connection.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Are there going to be bandwidth problems with vpns when more countries block porn though?
Like lots of France just joined them, and the rest of us lost a bunch of French exit nodes (at least for porn). The increase in subscribers should help expand bandwidth at big servers, but there’sa limit when we’re talking whole nations.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Why use Tor? It’s been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.
JiminaMann@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can you elaborate on how tor is screwed?
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 2 days ago
An example: youtu.be/XDsLDhKG8Cs
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s an easy proxy.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It doesn’t do the one thing it’s meant to do.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Could be worse. Could be you’re in the early 90s with only a 56k modem.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’d have good games and no bullshit on your PC.
coolmojo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And great LAN parties.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 3 days ago
My VPN's perfectly fine. To be fair, it's not a free plan of a VPN that's heavily throttled, but I can even play multiplayer FPS games with only a few milliseconds of additional delay, and my overall max upload and download speed is almost exactly identical to when I have my VPN off.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Plus an excuse to collect more data.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah the point is just to soften the populace to the idea. Our fucking PM covered for pedophile priests in a Catholic school 30 years ago, he doesn’t give any fuck about kids.