Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

tym@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The VPN is not supposed to protect you from an authoritarian government, it’s meant to bypass the ID requirement, which it does very well.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just don’t want some company having a picture of me in my dressing gown getting ready for a big wank.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  All it takes is Firefox with some tweaking. Or simply use it with chameleon (browser plugin) that throws fingerprinting off big time.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not the issue though, as long as my IP can teleport to a normal country, I can view whatever I want.

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• atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Does DNS and having a privacy focused browser work?

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Usually it helps but not as much as most people think. Very few people actually use a privacy focused browser, so that in and of itself is surprisingly identifying.

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  • BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fingerprinting still does a lot. If you want to do hard, use a VPN inside a VM. Even harder? Use multiple different VMs and a VPS with a VPN.

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    • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What is a VM?

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      • faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Virtual Machine. You run a computer… on your computer.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It can. Some built in ad blockers like on brave will even skip YouTube ads.

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    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Adblock Plus does that for me in Chrome. Although sometimes YouTube is able to disabled the extension, which is bad.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I still use ublock and Firefox, adblock lets paid ads through. Ublock is GOAT and works on Firefox mobile.

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