A popular VPN is seeing a 1,400% spike in signups as the UK's age verification law takes effect

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• lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Enjoy it while you can. VPNs and encryption in general are next.

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  • tuoret@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Also it’s only a viable solution as long as there are countries that don’t have age verification laws. 10 years from now there’s going to be a very busy VPN endpoint somewhere in Antarctica.

    It’s a bandaid fix that doesn’t address the actual problem.

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’d have to keep it for businesses. So I guess next headline: number of uk sole traders jumps by 1400%.

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    • lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Indeed. No doubt it’ll be the usual “rules for thee, not for me” situation. It’s only us peasants that don’t deserve privacy or security after all.

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