Tbh I would generally welcome a VPN-industrial-complex as long as it doesn’t result in a small ring of big names lobbying for systematic monopolistic dominance as to crush anything that doesn’t require PII… but I’m sure commercial and state interests would converge :/
Comment on Age verification lands in Italy − here’s how it affects VPN users
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 2 days ago
The headline is vert clickbaity : it does not affect VPN users (the law forbids age-gated websites from promoting VPNs as a circumvention), and the whole article is just an ad for VPNs
snipingsnipe@piefed.social 2 days ago
damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t read the article, as you said it’s just an ad for VPNs. But one way this affects VPN users is that now you can’t VPN into Italy to use a service without hitting the age verification prompt. That just sucks!
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 1 day ago
This would have been a (if not the only) good point to make in the article considering the title. But I guess this would have taken space away from ads