I’m pretty satisfied as a subscriber. Slowly using proton mail for more and more important accounts. Constant usage of the VPN. Trying to use the calendar more but still haven’t broken my Google Calendar habits. Proton Drive I use over google; I just need a Linux desktop application. Proton pass, still haven’t given that a go. Comfortable with KeepassXC and managing the backups myself. Proton Docs, it’s OK. Solid start. Hoping that notes partnership/acquisition eventually replaces Google Keep for me as a cloud notes application. I have pretty strong confidence now in the company regardless of the slow Linux developments
VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.
Submitted 10 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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network_switch@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Not sure where I got it form, but I have a Proton VPN client on Linux. It is pretty barebone, but it works.
Personally I just pay the 12,10$ for Bitwarden and use SimpleLogin aliasses together with that.
I just miss Microsoft Office on Linux, but that has nothing to do with Proton.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How about mullvad
Rin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Why not zoidberg?
njordomir@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying “normalcy”. Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn’t have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
hows proton?
commander@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess this bodes well for Proton becoming increasingly a Google One products replacement with more users potentially paying
Spaniard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And now they want to keep doing the job of the parents and forbid “social network” to kids 15 and under.
meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Peak French stupidity, this isn’t about protecting kids - it’s about building surveillance infrastructure. Back in 2024, critics already called this the foundation for a “Great Firewall of France”. Once you have the legal framework to block websites and force ISPs to implement monitoring, mission creep is inevitable.
The technical approach is laughably naive. They’re essentially creating a centralized system that could easily become a database of citizen sexual preferences. Even with their “double anonymity,” you’re still creating digital fingerprints and metadata trails.
Most importantly, it won’t work. Kids will just use VPNs - the same way adults are already doing. You’re not protecting anyone; you’re just pushing everyone toward circumvention tools while normalizing government control over what adults can access online.
It’s perfectly French because it combines maximum bureaucratic complexity with zero practical benefit, all while creating new opportunities for state overreach. Classic.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
i think it should be a little harder for a child to watch anal prolapse fisting porn than “click yes if you’re of legal age”….
but… not a good excuse for creating a citizen surveillance database.meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Fair point on the current system being theater, but here’s the thing - any centralized age verification system creates exactly the surveillance database you’re worried about.
The “harder than clicking yes” solutions all have the same fundamental flaw: they require collecting and storing sensitive data that becomes a honeypot for both state actors and bad actors. Upload your ID? Now there’s a database linking your identity to your viewing habits. Credit card verification? Same problem, plus you’re creating financial trails.
The technical reality is that determined kids will circumvent anything you put in place. We already saw this play out - VPN registrations exploded 1,000% in France within 30 minutes. You’re not actually protecting kids; you’re just normalizing data collection on adults while teaching every teenager in the country how to use Tor.
Better approach would be device-level parental controls that parents can configure without creating centralized databases. Let Apple, Google, Microsoft handle age verification through their existing account systems where the data stays local. That way you get actual protection without building the infrastructure for a surveillance state.
The French solution gives you the worst of both worlds - ineffective protection AND mass surveillance. Classic government efficiency.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Amen
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You horny bastards
superminerJG@lemmy.world 10 months ago
France underestimated the power of horny
TeddE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you met the French? There’s a bunch of English sex words brought in from French! Most notably is ménage à trois, for a threesome. The smoking a cigarette after sex cliché is pretty French too.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
ménage à trois
Should be “plan à trois” I believe
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
wtf, france?
webmuc@lonestarlemmy.mooo.com 10 months ago
once again porn leads technology
kepix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
this only means that americans dont know about proton vpn
LapGoat@pawb.social 10 months ago
it could also mean that americans already use a vpn service.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Which they probably should
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
im in california, browsing the internet using proton as i type this.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 months ago
At first I suspected this was the French government demanding that 40% of the videos be made in europe using the French language.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Which is weird since I often don’t hear much spoken dialogue in most porn films other than fake moans and screams.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Try searching for French maid.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“AHHH oui oui très bien! Plus fort s’il te plaît”
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I remember when the French used to respond to this shit with fire instead
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Now we get tear gased and shot with rubber bullets until we become disabled
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Bub, that’s always happened.
Well actually in the past it was executed
sircac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Intrigued by the quarter a day oscillation in that graph… 🤔
SilverShark@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think the oscillation described people’s activity time. Over the course of a day, people who would register for a VPN are much more likely to do so during the evening, because during the day they are busy with work. So you observer on a daily basis a peak like this.
Such charts are very common with services used daily. For example, social media usage in a given region often has a peak during the morning, a big peak during lunch time, and in general goes up after work time.
Of course not everyone works at the same time, but a majority of people have more or less the same work times, so we observe the peaks.
sircac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You are right, thanks! I misread the graph and thought it was a 4 cycles per day, which was puzzling me, but is indeed just a daily oscillation
zqps@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The only real interesting part is that there seems to be no major change in usage over the weekend.
Manmoth@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
This is depressing.
Allemaniac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
it’s not like sexual desire is human nature
Manmoth@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Sexual desire is one thing. Pornography is another. Porn is evil.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why do people even go to pornhub… there are so many other options
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
What would you recommend? :)
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
naughtymachinima for 3d stuff \
For other real videos, gotta check whether the french fucks blocked others like xnxx, xvideos, redtube. I don’t know which ones are also owned by the same parent company
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because it’s simple and it works. When most people want to watch porn they don’t spend an hour researching their best option, they just go somewhere they know and watch something there.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 10 months ago
So instead of switching to a different website, they spend an hour researching, buying and setting up a VPN in order to still use PornHub?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I don’t really give it much thought, I load pornhub, click a recommended video, do my business and then close the private tab (yes I know this doesn’t hide your activity but it does stop pornhub showing as a search suggestion.). I’m not a connoisseur it’s a means to an end.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I put what I’m looking for into DDG and then click the first result. 30% of the time it’s PH, and 30% of the time it’s Xvideos.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Someone64@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
He said PornHub not Proton
theherk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Reminds me of the running joke I had with a French bloke in a place were I worked in about how Jacquie-Et-Michelle (NSFW) was a part of French Culture which none of our other colleagues seem to - or at least admitted to - get.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well they are the French
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
pornhub is so sanitized now, im guessing its mostly because of the OF videos.
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
After the big purge of some years ago, PornHub has became useless. The good real videos are elsewhere.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
They removed a lot of videos that were perfectly legal and fine :-/
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I think that you are just a bit too kinky
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
More than TikTok’s US ban doesn’t mean much given they blocked users who originate from the US regardless of VPN location
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No one reads the damned article. France didn’t ban porn nor Porn Hub, they put in a place an age verification law and now PH is banning French IP addresses.
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Right, and TikTok banned users it previously identified as being from the US rather than doing the IP-origin ban PornHub uses given they don’t require an account nor app.
Krompus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are other, much better sites, lol.
Jhex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
go on…
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
xHamster is my go to!
Evotech@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a «produced porn» enjoyer…
Usenet Stashdb Local stash instance
Treat porn like you do tv shows :p
I don’t really care for home video stuff
SummaCummaCreampie@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Get Alldebrid, yes it’s paid but it’s cheap if you are just getting a vpn for porn you might as well get Alldebrid and you can use it to stream movies on stremio as well , then install the Alldebrid browser extension. Go to Adultdb.io click one of the links, scan the page with the extension. It will find the rapdigator link even if you don’t solve the captcha. Then click on the link in the extension and then it takes you to the Alldebrid page where you can download or stream the movie at basically the best quality. Also Alldebrid works with torrents so you can add torrents from xxxclub.to and usually it’s already cached and you can watch it immediately.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pervertube. Thisvid. Motherless.
I just realized indicating these websites might have revealed a little too much about the kinds of porn I like to watch. ☹️
MTK@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wonder if this is because it’s porn or because it’s french people who like to stick it to the government
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
le hon hon hon!!! je veux a l’vpn en plús!!!
judgyweevil@feddit.it 10 months ago
I don’t understand, why not just open another porn website?
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You misunderstand, France didn’t block pornhub, pornhub blocked France.
It is to protest against a new law requiring porn site to verify the users age. Which they argue will have dire consequences for security and privacy (I fully agree about the danger)
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They did the same in my puritanical US state that passed a similar law.
tempest@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So funny thing about Aylo, which used to be called mind geek, they own quite a lot of porn sites. Probably 5 or 6 of the top ten.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Brand loyalty
propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Unlike most other VPN providers, Riseup does not log your IP address.
Doesn’t that start with a blatent lie? Which serious VPN does that nowadays?
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How about you just parent your children? But it’s not about the children, that’s just always the convenient excuse
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t people realize there are hundreds of free porn video sites besides Pornhub? With bigger selection too because the smaller sites usually don’t get DMCAed.
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 10 months ago
List them or it didn’t happen
please
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 10 months ago
yourmom.com
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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