So… unstable government with increasing internet censorship.
Right? Like “turns out it’s just…” implies that the U.S. isn’t 50 states in a trench coat where the federal government changing hands means there isn’t the constant major changing of policy every few years from center-right fence-sitters to chaotic-evil fascists and back again.
and back again
Except, this time, it can last decades.
Remember the 40 years of Progressive Democrats (like the FDR era) dominating politics? This could be like that, but reversed.
The Regressive Era
Has been since Reagan.
Back again? No. Center-right fence sitters do not move the status quo. They preserve it wherever it lands.
I mean fair but there are some positives, at least. Even the bad democrats will do, or at least not outright kill, some good stuff.
Well the trench coat…I was about to say a fairly recent addition but some states are younger than that. There was a time when we said “The United States are…” rather than 'The United States is…"
We are, after all, the world’s oldest surviving Federation.
That’s really just the world getting used to it. The country may be a fucking disaster but it’s unlikely to see states coming in and out or being combined so they are, as far as anyone else needs to care, one unit. Nobody switched to “is” because of some idea of unity, it’s just because they don’t act separately on a federal level. Anyone with a braincell to spare knows that cooperation is a stranger to the States.
It’s a shitty “oldest fedration” that, frankly, as a Canadian I only know a lot about because every little piece of garbage it pumps out has a very nearly direct impact on my life in the form of a dogshit conservative culture that our own conservatives reproduce. I wish I could ignore that place, or maybe even enjoy its diversity of less toxic cultures and landscapes, but as it is I just hate the place and my familiarity with it is on a “know your enemy” basis. I could not give two flying shits about some white-washed “oldest federation” bullshit and am frankly insulted that even a small fraction of a part of you believes that I should care(the rest of you is fine though, I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way).
That rant got way out of hand, sorry, but I’m leaving it.
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Nothing like a little blue balls to kick start another civil war.
It is essentially internet censorship.
It is
essentiallyinternet censorship.
Now go find which members of Congress bought a bunch of VPN stock before these bans went into effect.
Both.
Turns out it’s just porn.
Oooh you’ve been caught with a secret link! I went to select those emojis and YouTube opened lol
Only a secret for some I guess.
Which client/webinterface is this? Asking for a friend…
Sync for Lemmy
Voyager also does this, should you care to check it out :)
Open source and free, I believe sync costs money, which is fair enough. Up to you!
Keep Your Parents Off the Internet. Aged very well…
“The Internet is an outstanding pornography delivery vehicle.”
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Not sure why but I can’t play this one for some reason.
Also, parents back then: “Don’t believe everything that’s on the internetz!” Parents now: “Did you know that ‘insert wild conspiracy bullshit’?!”
i was carefully taught how to scrutinize and verify media, now they get really fucking mad when they link a ridiculous article and i comment a link to the same website’s about page and point out the “satire” disclaimer.
And don’t you dare to reply with a fact checker proving them wrong!
oh yeah every fact checker i know of “has a liberal bias”. i keep asking where the right-wing fact checkers are but all i get is “do your own research”.
Same thing happened when Abbott started this whole thing in March of 2024
It just makes me think that neocons will come after vpns soon.
So many businesses use vpns in their day to day operations. There would be a huge push back from companies with money.
They’d just carve out an exception for corporations but ban private use.
If you vpn in to work from home, from you isp’s pov it looks the same as if you used a “private” vpn.
Not if your company has to register the IP address range of the VPN connections they use. ISPs could whitelist registered IP address ranges and block all other known VPN addresses.
They can try, we see how compliant the US was during Covid. Imagine that, but now the resistance is on both sides. VPN bans is gonna cause riots.
With the FCC unable to enforce net neutrality, they don’t even have to ban VPNs. Just hide some legislation inside an unrelated bill to give $250M to internet providers on the condition that they throttle VPN connections to 100 Kbps*, which those greedy fucks will happily accept.
*Likely worded as a stipend to improve the infrastructure, but only as long as the infrastructure is not used to aid terrorism™.
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I wonder if they saw a surge when Disney raised their price twice in a year, or Prime started showing ads.
I know my ISP saw a spike in traffic from Switzerland to my house around the same time.
Weird.
For me it’s the amount of traffic between my seedbox in the Netherlands and my home
Is this not them admitting they know your search history to a categorical sense? L data mining
They banned porn in the southern states of the US this week.
It’s only logical it’ll go up in search trend when something is banned but regardless it doesn’t change the fact they can and will use your data to make profile to sell. Idk why people upset and downvoting like I said something grotesque
Not really? All the data they said was US residents. That’s information readily available to any site you visit, any service you use, and anyone who looks at you.
As a Network owner, which a VPN owner would ultimately be, they can see the ip’s and DNS requests that ultimately leave their headend to reach the actual service you requested, they may not know precisely which user requested what, but with an uptick in sign ups, there will also be an uptick in load on the network, the network engineers could then easily see what traffic has increased out of their headend locations to what ip’s/DNS names. If suddenly they notice that there’s a much larger count of requests from the headend to say pornhub, then they could reasonably assume those new signups are making those requests. So that at least is one scenario where they wouldn’t need to dig into individual traffic profiles to know who is doing what.
Though aside from that, every VPN is going to be able to see which IP reservation requested what traffic via their router and firewall logs, so any VPN you use could if desired identify which user who logged in at a given time did what. It’s a matter of if you trust that org to do the minimum with that information. I think a release of their anonymous headend statistics similar to the highest level of Googles “what are people searching for trends” is fairly innocuous compared to releasing say by which state of the US what is their given VPN usage trend.
Appreciate the explanation, I do understand the sentiment that it is a very apparent observation based on a few different factors but that wasn’t what I was trying to bring to surface, simply wanted to say Proton is not the friendliest provider if you wanted anonymity.
I even appreciate their joke about “censored government” but hey to all their own.
…doesn’t proton claim they don’t analyse user data?
To do this graph you don’t have to have any user specific data. Just total amount of new accounts every day per country.
Yeah, but the “it’s just porn, lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” conclusion?
Most likely conclusion due to porn sites having to restrict access from some conservative US states.
You can find that from the news. The recent change is that many of the big sites are blocking the southern states because they have enacted laws that would require getting IDs to verify age. The sites don’t want to handle that PII.
Signup locations.
I guess that checks out.
They had a really good signup deal a few months ago: $75 for two years of service.
Love it.
… seems like both tbh.
“It’s just porn”? What does that mean? Are people sending porn over email or something?
Signups for ProtonVPN
Republican states have banned or blocked porn sites. People are using VPNs to bypass.
Oooh, I misread. Thanks.
Many US States have new laws that require porn sites to verify age and most porn sites don’t want to make themselves a target for Cyber attacks (searching for identity documents) so they deny access to any IP address in the state with that law.
The vpn is just to Make it look like you’re in a state that doesn’t have these censorship laws
Are people sending porn over email or something?
I like to fax dick pics to land lines that decide to attach a fax machine to them.
Fax is like uhhhhh e-mail for rotary phones.
Probably saw a rise in sign ups from Canada and Brazil…thanks to RFDers who spotted deals that make the plus sub for 2 years for equivalent of 39 CAD
