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... Who would have thought?

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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, you have to go into an account and verify you're of legal age for most big phone networks in the UK before they'll let you see adult content.

Simple on/off switch for the account with parental settings.

The whole protect the kids thing? Absolute fabrication.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't stop them connecting to WiFi at the local coffee shop though. Plenty of open WiFi networks around with very little filtering on them.

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

True, though that's just begging to use a VPN anyway.

[–] LunaChocken@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup.

At least the petition has 300,000 votes now at least.

Though I think I might see if I can get a cheap vps off lowendbox just to mess with

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's probably better than a commercial VPN, we know that their IPs get blocked. Depends how scared companies are of the regulator.

[–] LunaChocken@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Reddit blocks my oracle server so I assume they probably block most hosting vps's IP addresses

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Wow, who could have predicted this? Such a baffling mystery this is.

/S

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So the VPN companies make money, and everything remains the same. Except for the people that can't afford VPN's. So, it's just fuck the poor. One more thing they need to make a monthly payment to, that they can't afford to.

[–] zout@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Well, I'm not sure if it's advisable, but you could also use the Tor browser. At least, that's what I do to reach the pirate bay, which is blocked in my country.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/uk-households-could-face-vpn-32152789

next move is against vpn afterwards in october chatcontrol will follow

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I mean, ProtonVPN is non-profit and free, and anyone can download Tor. But yes, I still agree with you that it's definitely restricting people.