• Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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      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?

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        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.

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          I just heard that Express VPN was bought by a shady company, too. I wonder if it’s the same one.

          EDIT: Yep. It’s the same one. Kape technologies. They are apparently pretty evil.

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        I’d recommend proton vpn. They have a few other services like email and password managers but there free tier is more than adequate

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        My recommendation is to run your own instance of something like OpenVPN on a $5/month Digital Ocean droplet tbh

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            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.

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      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

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        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.

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          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

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            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.

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      Oh 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.