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Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2) (www.aylo.com)
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[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 28 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won't be bringing it back)

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 minutes ago

What VPN(s) would you recommend?

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

UK is going to be requiring age verification for VPN access. https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns

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.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted: Talk with friends and family

Hmmmmm... Maybe not though

" Help me, stepbro. I can't access PornHub anymore 🥹 "

[–] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Im stuck in age-verification

[–] rav3n@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Here's a free VPN that you can use: https://riseup.net/en/vpn

Try not to assume that there aren't free alternatives 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 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.