The Picard ManeuverLike ships in the night
MrJameGumbYou forgot the third car using a VPN to get all the content they’re actually paying for on all of their streaming apps
cmgvd3lwA 4th car is going to the highseas.
Baton down the hatches and raise me sails matey!
Baton
Batten
Maybe they were just really stubborn.
UnderpantsWeevilI just want to watch the Japanese Netflix anime drops. Is that so much to ask for natively?
Cloudless ☼Chinese citizens using VPN to access TikTok too.
Specifically American tiktok. The tiktok they have isn’t the same. Iirc It’s only educational stuff, and you get a time limit.
It is not American tiktok. It is tiktok for the world except China who owns tiktok.
NarendraCzarYou forgot there is a tram service to Lemmy
cm0002Meh, entirely different type of SM, what we really need is the defederated version of TT
But video is expensive so it probably won’t happen for a long time
Now if TT redoes their app to be defederated to evade US law that would be hilarious
TT is the defederated TT
I think you mean federated ;)
Oof yea, that’ll teach me to comment on Monday mornings lmao
Supposedly Pixelfed or Peertube just added shorts.
A big issue with that is when I signed up to peertube 10 months ago, literally the only videos I could find were French language protestors.
RmDebArc_5They are working on it
I would have preferred if they kept shorts off.
If it gets people to start using it and uploading content overall it is a win, although my hope was that it would build out to be a PBS competitor
Hey, woah. I don’t want you to be right. I want to stew in my contempt of YouTube Shorts.
I saw a post for this service yesterday I think. I don’t remember the name of it or I’d post a link, but it is created now and I think it’s active, or will be soon. It’s only for short-form video though, like TikTok, which isn’t my style of content.
Stay tuned Loops
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JoYonot a lot of videos hosted on lemmy
Texas residents using a VPN for porn
DesistanceAnd Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn’t even work.
Don’t forget Virginia!
Virginia living up to its name with the state mandated NoFap challenge.
I live close enough to Tennessee that I turn off my WiFi and let the cellular take me there haha.
Don’t forget Utah
There are 17 states that have passed or introduced bills requiring age verification for access to porn sites: New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, Oregon, Minnesota, South Dakota, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida.
Oregon? I thought Oregon was blue
What a joke. My home is WV and I’m currently in VA. Didn’t even notice either state had a porn ban. Get your fucking religion out of politics though.
I’m one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.
I’m thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven’t had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don’t need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I’d be cool with just one seat.
Anyone got recommendations?
Mullvad VPN is my go-to. No nonsense and meets all of my needs.
Hadn’t even heard of them. I’ll look into it. Thank you!
I love the fact that you put money in monthly like putting money in a meter. Really makes it feel anonymous with the no username or passwords.
I’m using Private Internet Access. It was purchased by a company some people think are sketchy, but they work well in my experience and are cheap. If you really need security that you trust, maybe go somewhere else. If you just need a VPN that works and is cheap, it’s an option.
I just heard that Express VPN was bought by a shady company, too. I wonder if it’s the same one.
Try WindScribe. You won’t regret it.
$69 for a yearly plan. They know what it’s being used for.
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This is mine as well, I like the price I like ControlD (the company’s other product) and I like that it’s not Nord or express vpn that’s good enough for me lol
HexareiMy recommendation is to run your own instance of something like OpenVPN on a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet tbh
While a good approach, this is not really possible for a majority of non-tech people.
Sure, I recognize that there are folks who won’t be able to pull it off, but there are also loads who can - And don’t know about options like OpenVPN. Figured it was worth a mention.
PIA has been awesome for me. Only downside I’ve encountered is I can’t get it working on steamOS.
I’d recommend proton vpn. They have a few other services like email and password managers but there free tier is more than adequate
Well, holy fuck! I already have a Protonmail account, so I guess all I need to do is download the VPN app. I’ll fuck with that, later. Thanks for reminding me this exists!
No problemo
Can someone explain it to Europeans?
Several states with republican leadership have required identification to view sites that have “adult content”. You technically can still access it without a VPN in these states, but I’m not trusting these sites with personally identifying information. Depending on the state I think you have to upload an image of your ID and other information. It’s really sketchy.
What the fucking fuck. In Europe this would cause French and Germans combined beheading entire governments. One thing I want to keep to myself is my porn choices. Giving my ID to a porn site sounds like a big fucking NO
“The land of freedom!”
Thats odd. I seem to remember the UK’s IWF breaking Wikipedia trying to block a CD album image. Must have been an illusion
UK quit Europe remember? They don’t count, the poor suckers.
gandalf_der_12teCould you theoretically fake the ID cards with image-generating AI?
I think they’re looked up to verify they’re authentic. I’m not certain, but I’m pretty sure that’s the case. If it isn’t then it’d be easier to just take an image of a real ID and modify it rather than using image generation to hope it comes out correct.
Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.
Admittedly, it’s not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I’m not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I’m certainly not going to do it for porn
LucidlethargyOh man, this is a much better comparison.
It’s still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn’t banned, but it’s effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.
But this also allegedly targets “culture”, just like China’s great firewall. It’s pretty damn stupid.
Americans who pluralize with an apostrophe.
littleblue✨For serious. 😵💫🖕🏽