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by the__alchemist 142 days ago
TailScale is a VPN, and the article highlights a recent increase in user base. This is likely due to VPNs being required to access pornographic materials for residents of many US states.
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Notably, it's a VPN for connecting your own devices together, so unless you're deploying a server elsewhere for access to porn it's probably not for that.
you can pay for the mullvad add-on to use their exit nodes
You can also just use Mullvad
> This is likely due to VPNs being required to access pornographic materials for residents of many US states.

Same in the UK, recently.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5er4ewg6o

It could also be that Tailscale users have many kids, who then also use Tailscale. Although if the header is meant to represent that, it's showing the wrong position.