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I’m surprised the average kid has the nous to set up a VPN, honestly. Doing it has always seemed like a proper faff.
by moomin 1y ago
I’m surprised the average kid has the nous to set up a VPN, honestly. Doing it has always seemed like a proper faff.
- johtso 1y agoReally? you can just download an app on your phone (like ProtonVPN) and it just works, where's the faff?
- Steve16384 1y agoI second ProtonVPN. I assume being Android it would mean side-loading and lots of faff, but you just download it from Play and you're away. You don't even need to create a login.
- thfuran 1y agoHave you tried in the last decade or two? Mullvad et al. are trivial.
- XorNot 1y agoThe average teenager is pretty motivated, and has a lot of free time.
- dmbche 1y agoIt's just as hard as installing Chrome.
- karel-3d 1y agoVPN is literally 2 clicks. At least the more scammy, commercial ones.
- 0xCMP 1y agoYea doing it "right" and "yourself" by setting up your own server(s) is some work, but not a lot. Downloading an app to your phone is easy. And it's crazy cheap for most of these services. If not free and they mine what you're visiting or use you as a node in their scraping system.
- mezzie2 1y agoSetting aside that the others are right and it's pretty easy: Don't need the average kid to be able to, you just need the average kid to have access to a peer who can do so for them. Which is quite reasonable.
- hedora 1y agoConcretely, if the high school has 1000 kids, you need to block the 99.9th percentile teenager. That kid’ll be a local legend if they’re the only one to figure out the bypass, and they’ll share it with friends. (It’s actually harder than that, since kids in different high schools communicate with each other.)
- thfuran 1y ago>kids in different high schools communicate with each other. And that'll need to stop. For the children. Won't somebody please think of the children.
- joquarky 1y agoWe could just sequester every teen into a sound proof cell, hand them a bible for all of their educational needs, and finally dump them out into the real world the day they turn 18.
- OJFord 1y agoIt is literally just search and install 'vpn app' on phone app store of choice. They're not spinning up servers and configuring OpenVPN or whatever, copying certificates to their client device. (Even that is pretty easy with Wireguard though.)
- ekianjo 1y agoMost VPN providers make it very easy. There is no manual process involved.