To the people of the UK:
What the hell is this authoritarian, pearl clutching shit? You're fucking shit up for everyone. Can you get your people to please fuck off?
Thanks, from some guy on the Internet.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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VPN company: "Don't care, not in the UK, fuck off."
Next step would be requiring UK ISPs to block traffic to the VPNs. They've already made it so you can't go to some sites based on DNS lookups, so there's precedent. Making it by IP address from a continuously-updated list would make it exceedingly difficult for regular users to access a public VPN, and while making one yourself from a VPS is straightforward, it can get expensive very quickly if you want to watch videos or download lots of stuff through it.
Mullvad vpn is probably gonna be safe from this demand from the uk because their account system relies on random string of numbers PLUS their website is also available on the tor browser
as long as they can accept GBP in the mail you're good
Don't tell them you can buy a vps and run your own vpn in another country.
Accessing the internet now requires age verification. Gg
They probably know and don't care because more than 99.99% won't do it.
Shh, dont tell him lobotomies became mandatory on birth since Gen Z, and there are only few who still know how this magical phone they are using every day works, let alone know what an IP address is
Shithole country doing shithole things. The UK is acting like a red state, and their standard of living is dropping accordingly.
Uk is closer to US in ideology than to europe post-brexit. also russel vought is behind all the porn bans of steam recently too, i would imagine he probably is too on this.
Even pre-brexit. The UK was never part of the EU, culturally speaking
UK was also closer to US ideology pre Brexit.
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I demand total access to UK official's private life then.
I see the louis rossmann in that answer
Hurrah Brexit!
They wouldn't be able to get this shit to fly against the other members of the EU, I don't think.
Those people are doing the Lord's work, forcing companies to give control over user data, to the users, making USB C a standard for all devices... I won't list everything, but shit. The rest of the world has benefited by proxy on so many things, because of the EU.
The UK is acting like a bunch of pearl clutching soccer moms.
Use tor to tunnel to a more enlightened country
buy vpn anonymously
use vpn
Just create your own VPN. Just rent a vps server in Ireland or Netherlands and install VPN software on it like OpenVPN and route your traffic through that server. You can even share your VPN with friends.
at some point i may do
Continue to buy VPNs while using other VPNs. Or use mullvad who apparently even accept cash in the post.
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I wonder how they figure that's going to work out.
I couldn't imagine being this pants-shittingly stupid about how the internet works.
Don't forget to donate to Tor Project and/or a relay operator if you use it, even $1 covers like several TB of traffic.
We did the year of Linux. Let's make this the year of Tor.
Real talk though, Tor for porn would be an awful experience and would slow down the entire Tor network. Tor is slow to begin with, and downloading large files (like videos) only slows things down even more for everyone. It should be a last resort, not the first thing people flock to. It’s the same reason people avoid torrenting over Tor; It’s slow and inefficient, so your downloads take fucking forever.
I use up3foe torrenting, but Tor for porn. It's fine.
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I fucking hate the UK, so much.
The MPs and Peers only fucking learnt about VPNs when this bullshit bill was being passed. They're so fucking clueless about the whole thing. They don't understand what a VPN exactly is and what it does and the fact their own government (hopefully) uses them, as do Banks (for security), Companies, and indeed, how it works.
This will lead to more bullshit.
They are not the first country to ban vpns, those bans usually target 95% of individuals who are bad at tech not encrypted communications as a whole. Though I can see Britain ignoring that experience and just shooting itself in the face.
As is tradition.
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lemmy and mastodon both have lots of porn. this is a dumb waste of time.
Insert tasteless parody of the "First They Came" poem
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