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?

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Just use a VPN outside the country or lease a low end VPS outside the country with decent bandwidth and host your own VPN endpoint. They can’t force ISPs to block all of the VPN protocols in general or they’ll lose a ton of businesses that rely on it for basic security of remote/traveling employees.

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You can’t DPI a VPN tunnel because it will break the tunnel connection.

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Even if they did, you can run VPNs over https, or make Tor disguise itself as other kinds of web traffic.

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And there are still ways to detect that.

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