Hey I heard that theres a Very Pretty Neat trick for Brits to “travel abroad” effortlessly
Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)
Submitted 2 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.aylo.com/newsroom/aylo-upgrades-age-assurance-methods-in-united-kingdom/
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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
House of Lords voted for age verification on VPNs. Not for them of course…
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So rent a VPS abroad and run your own VPN from it. Comercial VPNs have a business to maintain so they’ve got to comply to keep operating and public advertising, but a privately run VPN just for yourself is just another TLS connection in a sea of other traffic.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Then we just need a hero to route all our traffic through the House of Lords.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A bunch of VPNs are owned by Israel.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Doesn’t matter. Chinese people found a way around the firewall, pretty sure there are nerds in UK that will find a way.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 months ago
What does age verification mean for VPNs?
Because if I’m using a VPN using a UK server and I get any issues, I can switch to Spain, or Italy, or Zimbabwe or whatever. Is that not the case?
Maestro@fedia.io 2 months ago
Not really. They just announced they want to age gate VPNs too.
r8KNzcU8TzCroexsE2xbWC@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So I guess no more internships at companies with more than one office.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
China doesn’t even really allow VPNs at all, yet some people can still go over the wall.
If it’s just “age restriction”, I’m sure there will suddenly be a lot of grandpa/grandmas buying VPNs¹
¹When China tried to restrict online video games, kids just used their grandparents IDs for verification lmfao
warm@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Good job UK, you will push children to dangerous unmoderated sites instead! All in the name of state surveillance!
manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This will lead to, sexual blackmail of children, suicide and financial fraud.
You should thank the UK for sacrificing so many of its citizens to show the world what peak government stupidity looks like. We thought the point was made with Brexit, but the UK says “hold my beer” one more time.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You think it’ll be the bad example other countries learn from, but loads of other countries are already following suit.
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Which will be reacted to with even more authoritarian shit.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted:
- Talk with friends and family about getting a VPN (everyone says good things about Mullvad VPN, so it’s probably one of the best choices)
- Learn to use the Tor network (it’s really easy to start, and unlike popular belief, Tor isn’t only for illegal activities)
- Pressure MPs that didn’t vote in favor of the age verification bill by sending emails to them about it so that they fight (or keep fighting) this age verification nonsense.
You don’t need to be a porn addict to do these things. In fact, they have started with porn, but they may as well keep going and fight for age verification in other types of content, making access to said content way more difficult. The best thing you can do right now is to learn to fight back.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted:
Talk with friends and **family**Hmmmmm… Maybe not though
UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Im stuck in age-verification
tankplanker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
UK is going to be requiring age verification for VPN access. reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-exte…
Will this mean all VPNs will comply? Obviously not, but the bigger names will either pull out or comply as we seeing with the bigger porn sites.
The next step after this will be criminalization of using a VPN without age verification.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Wait, WHAT? They already voted? I didn’t expect that so soon…
jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won’t be bringing it back)
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Are there any VPNs that didn’t? I couldn’t really find any, and tbh it’s not a massive issue for torrenting. I still upload a fair bit, but obviously not as much as I would be if I had ports open.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
How does it harm p2p? I’ve been downloading and seeding without issue. Genuine question
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Fair point. I just assumed most people reading my message wouldn’t care much about torrenting, but in this economy where censorship is pretty much happening, port forwarding would definitely be a plus. Do you have better suggestions?
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What VPN(s) would you recommend?
rav3n@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Here’s a free VPN that you can use: riseup.net/en/vpn
Try not to assume that there aren’t free alternative to what “the crowd” is constantly herding you to pay for. Do some digging, and you may be surprised by what you come across.
Most of the good stuff is buried underneath mountains of bullshit.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The cost for us to offer RiseupVPN is approximately $60 USD per person per year. If you use the VPN, please consider donating at least this much. Thank you!
That’s the same as Mullvad then, or more if you consider that everyone who can afford it should pay for more than their fair share because some can not.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Don’t use tor for porn. Use i2p. You can torrent without breaking shit on i2p.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh no… Let’s just Google what other porn sites are out there. Oh look 1,642,000 results found…
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s not the point. This is a protest by the company running these sites against a system that’s not fit for its claimed purpose (age restriction of websites) but is very fit for surveillance.
manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well it kinda is the point, people will either use VPNs or go to riskier sources. I found a new site with loads of porn and all you have to do is install their browser plug-in, and video player!
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yall may wanna step in and nip that kind of authoritarianism in the bud because it doesn’t get easier when it’s matured.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What would we even call a decentralized porn site?
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 months ago
circlejerk?
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
FaptivityPub
SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fapiverse
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ActivityHub Dixelfed FedTube
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wouldn’t the ideal be self hosted content made by the people hosting it? Obviously there’s no mechanical means to block people from uploading content that they don’t make, but those kinds of ethical questions and control of access can be handled by federation networks.
Decentralizing these things could lead to a better way for sex workers to work safely (SESTA/FOSTA closed up a lot of safer avenues for sex work in the US) There’s a lot of rules for trust that you can build into these systems, things like basic encryption with private and public keys.
Someone who didn’t want their content online could take it down easily. They could easily gate it - like, think about where most of the profit the actresses and actors videos go to now? If you are watching stuff for free on a website, it’s the website getting ad revenue and maybe the company. Do they get royalties? Workers should own the means of their reproduction.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More importantly what type of content will linux users contribute to that site?
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There calling it NoFap February.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens as a result of cuting a population off from porn.
tino_408@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They will just rely on illegal outlets now lol Can’t wait to see people locked up for porn lol one of the stupidest ways to spend government money lol
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oi there, you got a liosence for that their wank
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
or use vpn/proxies to get around it. these are all PH-owned sites, i wonder if it affects the non-PH affiliates porn sites.
SuiXi3D@fedia.io 2 months ago
Texas did the same shit not long ago. VPN usage went through the roof, as expected.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
UK is requiring age verification on VPNs too
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If videos from other places with no porn are anything to go off of, they’re going to start learning how to drive their cars on two wheels without the distraction of porn.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Also seeing how many times they can get the car to spin after pulling the handbrake at highway speed.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember when you didn’t have to have a VPN to enjoy the internet.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What vpn obfuscations do you use? Because you know they’ll block vpn next.
ragas@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
You can probably block companies offering public VPN services.
But good luck blocking VPN in general.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They fully can’t, there’s too many legitimate reasons that their corporate overlords use it for, the most you’ll get is loud filibuster about “we’ll totally do that!” until the topic gets forgotten
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 months ago
This leaves citizens with a torrent of questions.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You really need a VPN to torrent safely, and the UK Government is in the process of restricting VPNs.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I guarantee there will still be VPNs accessible in the UK no matter what they try. My money is definitely on Mullvad still being accessible for one.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Uk is even more puritanical than the US,
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
They’re already blocking states in the US.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
sorry I don’t know what any of these things are
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Username does not check out.
Or it absolutely checks out.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
explain
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coz thats the only place porn exists
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Policy makers so naive
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 months ago
So that’s why that back mirror episode with the pig was set in the UK. They knew.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It‘s a British series.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some random YouTube video? Weak.
Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroy economy is deluded. Countless businesses use them every day.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Looks like it were gonna go back to private VPNs with 10/20 people putting in each month to pay someone in a unrestricted area to run them a VPN.
Keep it small, make it look like enterprise kinda shit.
Yezzey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They don’t need those wankers!
eletes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Have the porn companies released numbers on how affected their traffic has been with an these new rules? I could see them not wanting to they’re getting hurt but would be interesting to see
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why did your politicians become right-wing grifters? Genuine question.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes you can bait leftists into “taking the moral high ground”…
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m actually a little concerned some of porn torrenting communities aren’t ready for the jump to i2p yet. Gaytorrents, for example, seems to think this all being blown out of proportion and couldn’t possibly effect them.
Woht24@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What specific knowledge you have
danh2os@piefed.social 2 months ago
VPN industry …. EXPLODES!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are they partnered up with VPN companies by any chance?
Johnnyvibrant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I just found out today due to work needs that Vimeo already does this.
TBH I didnt know Vimeo was anything like this.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A lot of sites had to block the UK like Imgur, or completely shut down like Urban Dead, because they aren’t the kajillion dollar companies the UK government thought the Internet was made of. I don’t know why the UK didn’t enforce parental control software instead. OSA was a solution for a problem solved 30 years ago and is just going to destroy the Internet since it’s not possible for the vast majority of it to adhere to its laws.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Apparently according to the users here I2P is a good tool, so any good guides on I2P ?
Would appreciate it.
mudkip@lemdro.id 2 months ago
They want to stop us from gooning This is how it starts Then they move onto full internet censorship
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I will never understand why people insist on using VPNs in 2026. You are just moving a single point of failure elsewhere and paying someone to lie about spying on you. Move to i2p.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Buy those VPN shares, lol
wuffah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sexuality is a human right, and controlling sexuality is an authoritarian tactic to manufacture compliance.
manualoverride@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Someone has been reading 1984… I’m not disagreeing with you, just saying ‘hi fellow doom reader’.
danh2os@piefed.social 2 months ago
Bro, we are living 1984.