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Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The thing is, VPNs won’t protect your privacy much. Browser fingerprinting technology has achieved its goal. True anonymity online is damn near impossible now.

VPNs are able to help circumvent authoritarian bullshit by making the traffic appear to come from somewhere else. So states that implement laws banning what is essentially protected speech aren’t able to really be effective in their efforts because the people that live there just rote their traffic outside the state the have it all bounced back in. Banning VPNs would help them censor anything they consider porn.

That’s the real danger. A teenager jerking off is not the concern. It’s the excuse.

I wonder, what if we end run this with the cheap GPUs about to hit the market once the AI bubbles pop? Just set up a bunch of Remote Desktop instances people log in to pull shit up on and stream that to the browser. When they disconnect, nuke the container and pull the instance up again, route everything again. It’s basically Netflix of a remote session. And if they ban that, it would invoke the wrath of some incredibly powerful industries.

All because naked people are scary.

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acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

The thing is, VPNs won’t protect your privacy much. Browser fingerprinting technology has achieved its goal. True anonymity online is damn near impossible now.

except for traffic that does not come from a web browser at all. like API calls to download linux ISOs.

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- muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Linux distros are incredibly dangerous for children. They teach them they have options. It’s incredibly dangerous. We much protect them. For the ~~children~~ shareholders
  
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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Given that the only way for those websites to block VPN traffic is to block the IP addresses of all known VPN exit points, what you would see is first the VPN providers regularly rotating those IP addresses, and second people simply setting up their own VPN servers software in rented VPS in cloud providers anywhere in the World.

You don’t need a full blown remote session, just a VPN server with an IP address which isn’t yet blocked by such a site.

Now, the sites might try and block this by only allowing in connections from know ISP blocks of addresses (which would theoretically only be direct connections from individuals not using a VPN), but that’s way less reliable than merelly lists of IP addresses of the VPN servers of big providers, plus it would block thing such as the entirety of Amazon AWS.

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- muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They don’t care if it’s reliable. Timmy saw boobs!
  
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