You forgot the third car using a VPN to get all the content they’re actually paying for on all of their streaming apps
I just want to watch the Japanese Netflix anime drops. Is that so much to ask for natively?
Texas residents using a VPN for porn
And Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn’t even work.
Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.
Admittedly, it’s not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I’m not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I’m certainly not going to do it for porn
I’m one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.
I’m thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven’t had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don’t need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I’d be cool with just one seat.
Anyone got recommendations?
Mullvad VPN is my go-to. No nonsense and meets all of my needs.
I love the fact that you put money in monthly like putting money in a meter. Really makes it feel anonymous with the no username or passwords.
Hadn’t even heard of them. I’ll look into it. Thank you!
I’d recommend proton vpn. They have a few other services like email and password managers but there free tier is more than adequate
Well, holy fuck! I already have a Protonmail account, so I guess all I need to do is download the VPN app. I’ll fuck with that, later. Thanks for reminding me this exists!
No problemo
Try WindScribe. You won’t regret it.
$69 for a yearly plan. They know what it’s being used for.
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This is mine as well, I like the price I like ControlD (the company’s other product) and I like that it’s not Nord or surfshark that’s good enough for me lol
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Oh man, this is a much better comparison.
It’s still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn’t banned, but it’s effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.
But this also allegedly targets “culture”, just like China’s great firewall. It’s pretty damn stupid.
Can someone explain it to Europeans?
They’re gonna be real disappointed with the version of “Tiktok” available in China
Why would they VPN to the version of the app that has less English speakers?
I’ve got Chinese GenZ TikTok pegged as 10x more entertaining than American Boomer Facebook.
嘿，宝贝，想换VPN吗？(Hey babe, you wanna swap VPNs?) 🥵
That’s kinda funny. Do people really use that pun?
I’m using a VPN to byapass porn blocks while I’m stuck as an inpatient in hospital.
Fun fact, VPNs are regulated by the state in China
Same in Russia. I worked with a banking company that had a Russia office, and the company had to get government approval for the BOVPNs that were used.
What’s the point then?
Security and testing localization will be big use cases. But privacy and or using banned apps, no so much. They don’t call it the Great Firewall for nothing. ISPs, VPNs, etc.
If you want to use western social media , it’s not as simple as jumping into a VPN.
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This is the kind of thing that gets to me in this whole TikTok situation the most.
China bans most American based social media and what it doesn’t ban is heavily monitored censored and regulated.
Why would we (Americans) want to willingly use a Chinese owned/based/operated social media platform like TikTok?
We should never have started using it in the first place or at least immediately dropped it as soon as it became common knowledge that it had substantial ties to china.
There is so much hypocrisy on all sides of this issue.
We are not in China, are we? The (american) government should NOT have control over what information its citizens have access to. We should not strive to be like China in this regard.
I think they mean that the users shouldn’t use it. Not that the government should ban it.
using VPNs*
It’s the VPN’s service.
Anytime I see a misplaced apostrophe I assign some kind ownership to it. This one’s okay.
Russians using VPN to access
gosuslugi in 2024telegram in 2018.Please, don’t even touch this. With our RKN and useless pinnocchios banning random things extrajudiciously, I’d be surprised if we’d have any access to the internet in 2026. For those without a government issued pass and active service in bot farms, I mean. If I’d get limited to local resources, I feel like I’d give up on internet altogether. Can’t discuss shit there without pseudo-trad weirdos chiming in.
It may be a major plus for the Internet as a whole if the cable is cut completely, but I feel like it’d only be cut for dissenting folks, while carriers of the official talking points wouldn’t ever get limited.
You forgot there is a tram service to Lemmy
Meh, entirely different type of SM, what we really need is the defederated version of TT
But video is expensive so it probably won’t happen for a long time
Now if TT redoes their app to be defederated to evade US law that would be hilarious
Stay tuned Loops
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not a lot of videos hosted on lemmy
Except Tik Tok hasn’t been banned yet. And it’s not being banned for even remotely the same reason.
The issue with Tik Tok is that it’s owned by a company with ties to the CCP. The CCP, conversly, has “the great firewall”, which is directly intended to facilitate Chinese propaganda efforts to control their people.
Ssshhhhh… the toktok ban is ONLY about preventing speech!
Lmao. You people think CCP will use your data to control you? No way your American government can do the same, right?
You’re kinda stupid if you think big nation states outside of China do not participate in what China does. China learned from other influential countries as the CCP are the new kids on the block
Doesn’t mean American companies should be allowed to platform chinese apps.
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Tiktok and their inconsistent very sick snowflake moderation with punishing the appeals should be avoided. Ive stopped using it, deleted from my phone
Dumbest meme format
