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Leaving the complexity of attempting to circumvent the great firewall aside, VPN isn't free. Not many are willing to drop £60+/year just to avoid identifying yo
by bapak 1y ago
Leaving the complexity of attempting to circumvent the great firewall aside, VPN isn't free. Not many are willing to drop £60+/year just to avoid identifying yourself on PH. Easier to find a website that doesn't enforce it.
- dns_snek 1y ago> VPN isn't free. Not many are willing to drop £60+/year Yes it is, well, the shady ones that make you part of a botnet are. Those are the ones people are going to predominantly use.
- voidUpdate 1y agoIn the UK case, TOR seems to happily get around these restrictions for free (I gave it a quick check yesterday). I'd imagine that there might be some kind of crackdown on TOR exit nodes in the future though
- crimsoneer 1y agoTor is not an ideal browsing experience.
- voidUpdate 1y agonor is submitting your ID to a third party agency to allow you to go to a website
- Jigsy 1y agoPeople in the UK generally believe that the only people who use Tor are those looking for child pornography, even though it's an anti-censorship tool. I'd be careful if I were you. The police could use that as an excuse to raid you.
- bargainbin 1y agoThe police aren’t going to raid you for using Tor any more than they would for you using a VPN.