Hello ,
As the title says what happens if theUK requires age verification for VPN’s or makes it illegal to use them?
Does that mean everyone will move to tor or I2P?
It seems if the UK gov keep pushing their agenda under the guise of protecting children people will increasingly go dark .
I guess what I’m asking is how does everyone think this will unfold?
M
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You live in a bubble my friend. Not everyone will move to tor. Not even close. Linux has reached 3% in the steam statistics recently. Remove the deck users and you’ll be lucky if it hits 1%. Of those 1% not even everyone will be able to give up the regular web. I’m sure there will be a surge in alternative browsing prorocols, but not enough to change the status quo.
The Deck has done incredibly well, but they can’t manufacture enough to make your numbers make sense. Also, last I saw, Linux streaming was around 5%.
However, yeah, most people won’t know how to use these tools. There will probably be a ton of sites that pop up temporarily that don’t have age verification. Any time they go after them it’ll go down, and a new one will appear. They’ll be sketchy sites, but that’s how most people will avoid it if they want to avoid it.
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I found out students in my kids highschool were using VPNs to play roblox on the network (bypassing IT’s block). They way they did it was 1. Search “VPN” in the app store or play store. 2. Install the first result.
That’s probably a good model of what mass adoption of VPNs would look like.
The normies are mad . I use Arch BTW.
Gotta start em on something lighter. A gateway distro, if you will.