Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state
Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state
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Arizonans frantically Googling ‘VPN’ after Pornhub ban
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If you voted this in, you should be banned from VPNs.
Your search history should be public record.
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Imagine being so stupid that you think Pornhub is the only place to get porn.
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It isn't the only place, but it is one of the few where the content is somewhat searchable on top of just having a very large amount of content.
Plus people like to stick with what they know.
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Have you met the general population?
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unfortunately, yes
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Lol yeah, they've been out of TX for some time now, and it hasn't affected my fapping habits one bit.
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Well there is sth with hamsters.
However lots of the old porn websites are bought by pornhub. And via some weird business shit even nutaku is part of pornhub.
So you have an almost monopoly here.
All the other sites are much more shady and can not be used without an adblocker (I know everyone should already have one, but most people don't)
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That's true, however, I think they are the largest platform for user-submitted content that allows them to profit from their work.
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I'm pretty sure PornHub is just the most well-known example and they happen to own something like 5 others of the top ten most visited porn sites on the net.
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Understandable
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Luckily, you can type
VPNentirely with one had.-
V….P….Nnnnnnnghhh
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Just like "Brazzers". I wonder if they did it on purpose.
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I mean, I sure love connections and encryption, but it doesn't have that effect on me
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Pavlovian response
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One hand? Pfft. I just mushroom stamp it out.
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Foreplay before masturbation?
You’re so civilized!
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What a horribly shitty place to live.
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I left about a decade ago. Best decision of my life.
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In other news, today is "no shit" day.
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No shock at all.
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looking to ditch hotmail after 25 years, noticed proton also offers vpn, may as well get that, i live in a red state
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Proton, in my opinion, make the best VPN for people who need both mobile device support and port forwarding so they can be a good citizen with all those linux ISOs they torrent. I don't use their desktop client (I prefer to rawdog OpenVPN and Wireguard) but people like those.
Proton's email is dogshit. Don't get me wrong, it is awesome for making burners that many websites don't insta-block (although that is shifting). But you don't own your data unless you regularly run their nonsense client to tunnel into their servers. So if Proton goes shit tomorrow? All your emails are gone. Not a HUGE issue if you regularly fetch those but... yeah.
I've been backburnering it for other reasons but folk like (Not That) Will Smith and many others have been very big supporters of Fastmail and, looking at it, it seems pretty nice. And it fits my use case of using an email address at a domain I own so that I can just move between services depending on pricing and how evil corporations are in a given month.
Just to elaborate a bit. Migrating from JohnSmith@gmail to JohnSmith@hotmail to JohnSmith_75151515@proton is a massive undertaking.
Migrating from John@SmithDotOrg hosted by Foo to John@SmithDotOrg hosted by Bar is potentially under an hour depending on how you manage that domain and so forth.
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No one gives a single flying fuck about owning their email generally. The number of people who actually care about that aspect basically can be counted on one hand compared to the total number of even technical people who understand what that means.
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But you don't own your data unless you regularly run their nonsense client to tunnel into their servers. So if Proton goes shit tomorrow? All your emails are gone. Not a HUGE issue if you regularly fetch those but... yeah.
Tbf most people don't download offline copies, they just let all their email live on their provider's servers and never think twice.
Personally, I've used either Outlook or Gmail since 2000 and haven't ever had an issue getting access to my emails.
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Proton, Mullvad, PIA, are a few decent options. Be careful about anything that isn't widely trusted by the community as there are so many un-trustworthy providers out there that are basically shilling old-school spyware/malware. Also, for getting decent performance, they should also be using a modern protocol like wireguard underneath, not something like OpenVPN or L2TP or something like that. You will want port-forwarding if you use it for torrents, and that narrows it down extremely.
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I imagine using the TOR browser would work as well.
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It does, but can open a whole other can of worms....
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You'll probably be unable to use it for major sites due to how much it's blocked due to abuse coming through Tor exit nodes.
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Did you know the "hub" had a official onion mirror? It was back in 2020. i really hope they bring that back. afaik they never made a V3 onion address.
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It's particularly useful for doing research, as most major websites, that don't need accounts, work well enough (you will get CloudFlare Captchas). So research your VPN with tor browser, then use your commercial VPN to log in to social media sites that block logging in from tor, or watch your video content that will be too slow over tor. Both tools have a use.
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If VPNs get outlawed for some reason in AZ, Tor is another option. Make sure you download it from their site sonce there are fake Tor apps in the playstores
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Using "what about the children!?" to control adults.
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I mean if they ban pornhub they'll go after everything else so best get a VPN now.
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The key with a VPN is to buy long term. I got a black friday deal for Proton last year that comes out to two dollars and pennies a month.
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Hassler and ploybay mag subscribers probably had it little bump? Hopefully pregnancy doesn't have a little bump in the stupid state.
Every single one of you idiots is fine with paying extra to access a free service. VPN! VPN! Gotta have a VPN to fool everyone!
You didn't need a VPN before, because religious nazis have to control every single fucking thing. Control that porn! Control that "R" rated movie! Control those words in songs! Control the words in books! All religious movements.
Stop supporting religions, you stupid fucks. Requring a VPN is just saying that poor people don't get free porn, because they can't afford a VPN. Which is yet another thing that religious dickheads do.
If you're religious - FUCK YOU!
The big downsides are:
I could go on and on. And nothing about the above has anything to do with porn.
I just keep my VPN on at all times and I've seen no noticable lag. My Steam download speeds are still regularly 500mb+/sec.
I'm sure it would be marginally faster without it, but the hit is so small that I see no reason to ever turn it off.
Finally, I found another one like me. Prepare for a shower of shit in the comments, as most people here defend religion strenously.
The issue isn't being religious, it is demanding everyone else be too.
I was with you until the last sentence. As someone who is not religious in the slightest, I have no problem with people being religious as long as it's not forced in me.
Religions have yet to prove to me they are not just another tribal group that wants control with extra steps.
Pretty much a default that religion, given the opportunity, will seek to push its rules and values on others. Doesn’t matter if it’s a medicine man or someone sitting on the local school board. I don’t have a problem with religious people in principle either, the problem is that even if you do meet a decent couple of people who appear to keep their religion to themselves there’s hundreds of thousands in their “club” that are going to fuck with things. Kinda like being in the republican party - even if they’re decent people, aren’t bootlickers, aren’t homophobes, etc… they still vote for, support, and associate with a group that does a lot of shitty things.
Nope, garbage shit for assholes who want to control idiots. And yes it is being forced on you, that's how Christian national terrorism works, if you don't think it is, I'm sorry, but you're also an idiot
The problem is that by its very existence and prevalence you have to contend with religion's bullshit effecting your life.
So honestly you should be against people being religious and try and discourage it. Though yeah its not super helpful to look at individual religious people and hate them openly. That's a good way to just harden them right back against you.
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My friend who was previously more etheist, has been attending church. We have lost another soul guys.
There is an important distinction between being religious and supporting organized churches. 'Religious people' aren't any more of a threat to you than gay people are. Churches, particularly the Catholic Church in Christianity, that don't even follow their religion's teachings, are the problem.
You don't need an organized group to have people who compromised on logic forcing their views on others. Sure, an organized group can be more efficient, but it is also more visible as a threat.
The solution to the root cause of this (asshole politicians) and all the other fucked up shit going on, is to vote. Vote for a candidate that won't do shit like this. If you want to do extra, donate time or some money to a candidate you like.
r/atheism is that way my dude
What? You don't have to be atheist to be against organized religions.