If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted:
Talk with friends and family about getting a VPN (EDIT: Some recommendations I’ve heard are Air VPN, Private Internet Access, and, despite not having port forwarding, which is essentially one less major feature, Mullvad VPN. A thank-you to @jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com for suggesting the former two.)
Learn to use the Tor network (it’s really easy to start, and unlike popular belief, Tor isn’t only for illegal activities)
Pressure MPs that didn’t vote in favor of the age verification bill by sending emails to them about it so that they fight (or keep fighting) this age verification nonsense.
You don’t need to be a porn addict to do these things. In fact, they have started with porn, but they may as well keep going and fight for age verification in other types of content, making access to said content way more difficult. The best thing you can do right now is to learn to fight back.
P2P requires at least 1 person to have open port forwarding. Ideally, everyone has it open on their VPN. The more people start recommending vpns without it, the more torrents as a whole start to die as everyone I inherently becomes a burden on the system.
Are there any VPNs that didn’t? I couldn’t really find any, and tbh it’s not a massive issue for torrenting. I still upload a fair bit, but obviously not as much as I would be if I had ports open.
Try not to assume that there aren’t free alternatives to what “the crowd” is constantly herding you to pay for. Do some digging, and you may be surprised by what you come across.
Most of the good stuff is buried underneath mountains of bullshit.
The cost for us to offer RiseupVPN is approximately $60 USD per person per year. If you use the VPN, please consider donating at least this much. Thank you!
That’s the same as Mullvad then, or more if you consider that everyone who can afford it should pay for more than their fair share because some can not.
If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted:
You don’t need to be a porn addict to do these things. In fact, they have started with porn, but they may as well keep going and fight for age verification in other types of content, making access to said content way more difficult. The best thing you can do right now is to learn to fight back.
Hmmmmm… Maybe not though
" Help me, stepbro. I can’t access PornHub anymore 🥹 "
Im stuck in age-verification
Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won’t be bringing it back)
How does it harm p2p? I’ve been downloading and seeding without issue. Genuine question
P2P requires at least 1 person to have open port forwarding. Ideally, everyone has it open on their VPN. The more people start recommending vpns without it, the more torrents as a whole start to die as everyone I inherently becomes a burden on the system.
Are there any VPNs that didn’t? I couldn’t really find any, and tbh it’s not a massive issue for torrenting. I still upload a fair bit, but obviously not as much as I would be if I had ports open.
AirVPN allow port forwarding.
I use Mullvad for my day to day devices like my phone and laptop, and AirVPN in my homelab for things like torrenting.
UK is going to be requiring age verification for VPN access. https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns
Will this mean all VPNs will comply? Obviously not, but the bigger names will either pull out or comply as we seeing with the bigger porn sites.
The next step after this will be criminalization of using a VPN without age verification.
Don’t use tor for porn. Use i2p. You can torrent without breaking shit on i2p.
Here’s a free VPN that you can use: https://riseup.net/en/vpn
Try not to assume that there aren’t free alternatives to what “the crowd” is constantly herding you to pay for. Do some digging, and you may be surprised by what you come across.
Most of the good stuff is buried underneath mountains of bullshit.
That’s the same as Mullvad then, or more if you consider that everyone who can afford it should pay for more than their fair share because some can not.
There’s always a 🤡 trying to get people to pay for what they can be getting for free.
If no one pays for it then it disappears, dummy.
Honk honk
It’s a volunteer service. If you use it and don’t donate but could afford to, you’re just selfish.
Now it’s a circus!