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by lordhumphrey 293 days ago
The 'internet tax' will not last, either, I fear.

Loads of VPNs are simply, someone other than the local ISP gets your data. Mullvad seems trustworthy, as an exception to this, and who else? And even then, Mullvad faces issues from websites and censorious countries trying to block it and bother its users all the time.
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littlecranky67 293 days ago
Proton includes a VPN in their office365 competitor Proton Business Suite. While big sites like Netflix don't want you to use VPN, I am sure porn sites are very happy to let you through once your VPN address is not longer in a jurisdiction that requires AV.
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Hizonner 293 days ago
... but I don't care if my ISP or the VPN knows I'm watching porn. I just want to actually be able to watch it.
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ghssds 293 days ago
What about a VPS and ssh -D ?
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lordhumphrey 292 days ago
As the other replies allude to, it worked at one stage.

This subjective and lovely history of the Great Firewall of the PRC was posted recently, about the to and fros in the methods of this kind of thing, and is really very good, if you're interested:

https://danglingpointer.fun/posts/GFWHistory

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intothemild 292 days ago
Easily blockable. The early days of getting around Netflix was just using a commercial VPN. Then they blocked all those.

Then we transitioned to a VPS and hosting our own VPN.. then they blocked all VPS IP ranges.

What came next was VPNs that were using other people's home connections (either willingly or otherwise)

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roygbiv2 293 days ago
Where is your VPN hosted? A lot of sites will block vps hosts.
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