Apparently according to the users here I2P is a good tool, so any good guides on I2P ?
Would appreciate it. Been meaning to learn about I2P for a long time.
Why did your politicians become right-wing grifters? Genuine question.
Uk is even more puritanical than the US,
That’s where the puritans came from.
They fled Britain and stayed in Holland a few years first.
What vpn obfuscations do you use? Because you know they’ll block vpn next.
You can probably block companies offering public VPN services.
But good luck blocking VPN in general.
Anything encrypted is blocked. Boom, done.
Is it stupid? Yes. Never stopped lawmakers.
How do you know if something is encrypted?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_channel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Or for more practical implementations: https://blog.frost.kiwi/ssh-over-https-tunneling/ https://nurdletech.com/linux-notes/ssh/via-http.html
And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter
They don’t need those wankers!
Some random YouTube video? Weak.
Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroying economy is deluded. Politicians who say they will don’t understand the internet, they’re old. Countless businesses use them every day.
Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroying economy is deluded
Anyone who thinks government would never do something as utterly stupid as shooting itself repeatedly in the everything out of spite is deluded. Banning all form of encrypted traffic would be insane. Now tell me, how many insane things have we witnessed in the recent years from our collective governments?
Hmmm. China
What about China? There are VPN in China. They only try to block those that are used to act as if you are not from china.
Company VPN or university VPN are generally allowed.
Yeah so seen in the context of the OP it would be enough
True. That is probably what the UK will settle on too.
Politicians who say they will don’t understand the internet, they’re old
And that’s exactly why they will try. Keep in mind their will still be VPN’s. You just won’t be able to access it. It will only be for governments and the elite.
I’m actually a little concerned some of porn torrenting communities aren’t ready for the jump to i2p yet. Gaytorrents, for example, seems to think this all being blown out of proportion and couldn’t possibly effect them.
What specific knowledge you have
There are sages all around us. Sometimes tho … Asking for their wisdom comes with a curse.
Looks like it were gonna go back to private VPNs with 10/20 people putting in each month to pay someone in a unrestricted area to run them a VPN.
Keep it small, make it look like enterprise kinda shit.
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I remember when you didn’t have to have a VPN to enjoy the internet.
I will never understand why people insist on using VPNs in 2026. You are just moving a single point of failure elsewhere and paying someone to lie about spying on you. Move to i2p.
vpn is too easy to track, thats why reddit immediately would recognize user and ban vpn users. on another site, they use private proxies mobile, residential, with anti-detect browsers(use to spoof your fingerprinting, canvas,etc) thats how they are using it with hordes of reddit accounts that wont get immediately detected.
Coz thats the only place porn exists
Policy makers so naive
Have the porn companies released numbers on how affected their traffic has been with an these new rules? I could see them not wanting to they’re getting hurt but would be interesting to see
Are they partnered up with VPN companies by any chance?
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.
Don’t use tor for porn. Use i2p. You can torrent without breaking shit on i2p.
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 🥹 "
Im stuck in age-verification
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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.
Wait, WHAT? They already voted? I didn’t expect that so soon…
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.
Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won’t be bringing it back)
How does it harm p2p? I’ve been downloading and seeding without issue. Genuine question
Are there any VPNs that didn’t? I couldn’t really find any, and tbh it’s not a massive issue for torrenting. I still upload a fair bit, but obviously not as much as I would be if I had ports open.
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.
Fair point. I just assumed most people reading my message wouldn’t care much about torrenting, but in this economy where censorship is pretty much happening, port forwarding would definitely be a plus. Do you have better suggestions?
What VPN(s) would you recommend?
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.
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.
There’s always a 🤡 trying to get people to pay for what they can be getting for free.
If no one pays for it then it disappears, dummy.
Honk honk
It’s a volunteer service. If you use it and don’t donate but could afford to, you’re just selfish.
Now it’s a circus!
