As of July 25th, internet users in the United Kingdom are being asked to prove their age before accessing many of their favourite apps and websites.
Reddit, for example, redirects the user to a 3rd party data broker service, where they are asked to provide biometric face scans, official identity documents, or a similar measure.
Do you comply with these new requirements, or just find something else to do with your time?
Well, no, there's a third option of course: circumvention [VPN].
Not much directly. Indirectly: Reddit has been ramping up VPN bans for some time. It's pretty thorough from what I see.
We may wind still up in the same unwanted space (Gov's influence over browsing) but thru different enforcement measures.
If Reddit blocks your IP using their .onion site is an option.
TIL. Guess I’ll need to explore that cause I’m not really up for this send passport and face scan to random companies bullshit
I'm already abandoning all my accounts that have my name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s
hmm: https://www.foxnews.com/world/cs-lewis-tolkien-orwell-among-...
The usual.
Edit: I've changed the title of this post from its original and slightly more inflamatory "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs", because it seems to be getting popular and I don't want to see a million people arguing over it.
dotcoma•6mo ago
And of course the ban does not work even in China.
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la_mezcla•6mo ago
If there exists a rule that allows an omission of "the" for "UK" in certain context, will you send me $20k on top?
If you aren't able to prove that in this context I speak formally rather than informally, and in the latter "the" may sometimes be omitted, will you send me $30k on top?