Ah yes America, the embodiment of “if he jumped off a cliff would you do it as well?” Followed by “Hold my Bud Light”

I'm aware, got options set up. But the vast majority of people? It's not all about me like.

Give it a bit of time and you'll need a license to use a VPN. Without a license, your ISP can snitch in you. Unless you use starlink.

Or pay for your VPN with crypto?

Jokes aside, a Double VPN exists, which masks your VPN with a VPN.

The government can decree that ISPs have to block the IP addresses of known VPN endpoints. That's perfectly possible. They did something similar with piracy sites before (e.g. if you go visit piratebay on virgin media you'll get an error page). It's a game of cat-and-mouse because if it's done with DNS then aliases pop up immediately, and if it's by IP then other proxies pop up, but the fact is they could make is so difficult for average users that people give up.

China's VPN blocking is actually very, very effective, and the vast majority of people don't go around it.

And that's kinda the point - the controls don't have to be 100%, they just have to cover the majority. And for the few that do circumvent - well, that's just one more easy crime for the authorities to charge you with if they ever feel the need.

2026 - 1984 = 42

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Open Vagina, Dick, Asshole

c/unixsocks

Oim gonna hav to clamp that willie ov yours untill such toim as the courts decide

It was planned from the beginningas the real drivers behind the detail of the legislation, the security services, knew people would use VPNs and those have always been the main target.

Its why the legislation was written in the first place. Most people's identity is already tied to their connection via big tech social media. Its the people who use VPNs they can lose track of.

I would expect this to be a live requirement by the end of the year at the latest.

Just be glad the client side scanning keeps getting rejected thats in the same legislation.

P2P requires at least 1 person to have open port forwarding. Ideally, everyone has it open on their VPN. The more people start recommending vpns without it, the more torrents as a whole start to die as everyone I inherently becomes a burden on the system.

Private Internet Access and Njalla both allow port forwarding.

Mullvad is heavily shilled, and for some reason no online discussion ever ends on a critical note. Be wary and don't assume the group is always correct.

AirVPN allow port forwarding.

I use Mullvad for my day to day devices like my phone and laptop, and AirVPN in my homelab for things like torrenting.

Maybe not massive issue for individuals yet, but I guarantee anti piracy orgs love everyone switching to a VPN that inherently weakens the torrent ecosphere.

Airvpn or Private internet access seem to be the good options nowadays, MAYBE protonvpn if you can separate the product from the owner, due to the CEO making inflammatory statements on his socials. That's a call you have to make for yourself and your own threat model.

PIA (Private Internet Access) seems really good. I am currently finishing up a 2 year discounted Protonvpn subscription but am reevaluating it as a viable option due to recent political posts from the CEO. As far as the service goes it was great though.