Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoThe big downsides are:
- Yet another Internet tax on the poor
- Everyone gets worse internet
- Most people are woefully unprepared to shop for a VPN from a reputable provider, meaning most people are going to end up subjected to even more surveillance and potentially attacks on their devices.
- Most people also are not prepared to manage when to and not-to use it, so will get slower internet all of the time.
- This will create lists of VPN users at both the ISPs and the VPN companies that will be usable by later christo-fascist governments.
- This will ultimately get laws passed against consumer-facing VPN services, making it harder for people to protect themselves from other attacks.
- More honey-pot VPN services will start up to support that list-gathering for future christo-fascist governments looking to build dossiers on as many people as possible.
I could go on and on. And nothing about the above has anything to do with porn.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I just keep my VPN on at all times and I’ve seen no noticable lag. My Steam download speeds are still regularly 500mb+/sec.
I’m sure it would be marginally faster without it, but the hit is so small that I see no reason to ever turn it off.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes, that’s probably the least-problem of my points. Really more of an issue for poor VPN providers, which people will end up with due to 3.