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    VPN downloads surge in Australia after age checks hit porn sites, online games, and social media
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    VPN downloads surge in Australia after age checks hit porn sites, online games, and social media

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    2. Subpar-Specimen on

      These age checks are another absolutely insane privacy overreach. The parties and politicians supporting this bullshit should be voted out. When will we learn?

    4. TheHoovyPrince on

      The internet is like 40% porn and based on what uh… what other people have checked ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), a lot of the big sites are still working so that means the absolute majority of the less popular/smaller sites are still available to Australians.

    5. Educational-Store131 on

      Heres the thing. Everyone will want to watch porn and there will always be illegal porn site. All they achieved is making it harder to regulate porn and keep the truly nasty stuff away from kids. Now instead of a somewhat regulated pornhub u get sketchy random sites. Same with social media.

    6. DPRofWestralia on

      Tried to watch some porn last night AS IS MY RIGHT AS A 35YO MAN and it asked me for face ID verification… Never downloaded a vpn so quickly in my life.

    7. DAFFP on

      Not to worry. I can just jerk it to this techspot article. Specifically its reddit thumbnail. Before it even finishes loading.

    8. Sirtemed on

      VPN has been banned in Belarus, Iraq, North Korea, and Turkmenistan

      It will not be long before Australia adopts that policy

    10. yeahcxnt on

      i just ended up switching from pornhub to some dodgier website that didn’t institute any changes. it’ll be a net negative for society

    11. purpliest_pancakes on

      I’ve been considering a vpn for general security anyway. This made it a no brainer. Thanks government.

    12. Crazyripps on

      Utter joke of a rule. Just pointless. Porn sites are like hydrous get rid of one 2 will takes it place.
      And there’s free VPNs that work

    13. CGallerine on

      who could possibly have ever guessed…? small hint, its anyone under the age of 60 and doesnt work in government

    14. Rogue387 on

      How many data breaches have there been worldwide by massive corporations getting hacked Optus and Discord just to name a couple. And here’s the Australian Government Encouraging Citizens to upload drivers licences, id photos and personal details to 3rd Party Companies all under the dubious guise of protecting the kiddies. If someone suffers from Identity Theft due to this policy is the Government going too reimburse the losses?

    15. Suipants on

      Would using Google’s dns server be a way to bypass this? I already use it to .. Uh.. I mean, I hear it works to bypass the blocking of some sites like ones used for plundering on the seven seas…. Y’arr me hearties!