Seems that the Swiss legislature may pass a law requiring ProtonVPN to start banning certain domains from being access by French users (mostly illegal sports streaming sites)

For those using ProtonVPN, is the writing on the wall?

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    1 天前

    (mostly illegal sports streaming sites)

    This doesn’t accomplish what the legislature intends. It never does. For instance, in the US, Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth without duct tape and bailing wire, has decided to ‘ban’ PornHub. It makes all the christofascist’s dicks hard because in their mind, they have rooted out evil and destroyed it. (See Satanic Panic in the 80s) However, their weak, little minds cannot comprehend the fact that for every technology, there exists an equal, yet undoing technology.

    Do it for the children I hear them say, and I would agree in this example, that children should not be viewing porn. A better solution would be to make parents actually parent. You brought a service into your home that can be both highly detrimental and highly beneficial, and then you turn around give it all, including a cel phone, to a very inquisitive mind uninhibited, unmonitored, and uncontrolled in any manner. You’re the problem, not porn.

    /end soapbox

  • commander@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    2 天前

    I don’t know if it’s the same law but they’ve already said they’d move countries, anywhere with laws suitable for the service

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        47·
        1 天前

        The only reason it’s part of their branding because Switzerland is notoriously respectful of privacy. If they stop being that then that’s no longer a selling point.

        • coconut@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          1 天前

          You people are going to hate me for thid but it’s not a privacy concern if they block piracy domains ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

          • CapitalNumbers@lemm.eeOPEnglish
            4·
            12 小时前

            Cool.

            In other news, Swiss law makers claim opening and reading all mail sent to make sure it doesn’t include the phrase “monty bojangles” is “not a privacy concern”

            My point is that in order to block a specific domain, you necessarily need to check it against a list of all legitimate domains being accessed

  • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 天前

    Just more confirmation that centralized VPNs, and therefore basically all VPNs most people use, are doomed to fail in their purpose, and are sometimes worse than no VPN.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    2 天前

    Does anyone have thoughts on the IPv6 privacy extensions? They theoretically could help a lot with privacy

    The idea is that your device has tons of temporary IP addresses that can be used for various tasks like surfing the web.

    • MelmiEnglish
      5·
      16 小时前

      All of your temporary privacy addresses will be coming out of the same subnet, so it’s clear they all belong to the same people.

      Ultimately the privacy extensions are just bringing IPv6’s privacy back in line with IPv4, because without the privacy extensions every single device has a separate IPv6 address based on its MAC address whereas in IPv4 most consumer networks have every device sharing a single IP.