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Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

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[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not in Arkansas and not a porn consumer, but in this day and age how do you not already run thru a VPN or two?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people are technologically ignorant, friend

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kinda adult would care about your ISP knowing you watch porn?

VPNs are often over blown. Their ads will make it seem like they're some critical privacy thing, but these days virtually every website is encrypted (HTTPS). Your ISP can know the IP address you're visiting (and thus typically the site), but pretty much everything else, including what page you're viewing on the site, is known only to you and the site in question. VPNs had a lot more merit before HTTPS was ubiquitous.

They're still useful if you're visiting illegal sites or using peer to peer technology (most particularly illegal torrents), but that's not the case for many and certainly not for just viewing normal porn.

[–] youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm lost here, why would you need a VPN running all the time?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It may even speed up your connection.
Taken from information for end users of Swan Mobile:

If enterprise blocks, slows down or prioritizes selected ports or services, it will list them in the following table

There you may notice P2P being limted to 1Mbps and Video streaming to 2Mbps.
So... without VPN you can watch videos in like 360p. Oh, but it gets better, after you use 10GB on video streaming it drops to 1Mbps. So 240p? 💀
With VPN you just get the general FUP limit of 300GB without limits.

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well I rip and run, so streaming isn't my bag baby.