A popular VPN [Proton VPN] is seeing a 1,400% spike in signups as the UK's age verification law takes effect
A popular VPN [Proton VPN] is seeing a 1,400% spike in signups as the UK's age verification law takes effect

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A popular VPN is seeing a 1,400% spike in signups as the UK's age verification law takes effect

Enjoy it while you can. VPNs and encryption in general are next.
Also it's only a viable solution as long as there are countries that don't have age verification laws. 10 years from now there's going to be a very busy VPN endpoint somewhere in Antarctica.
It's a bandaid fix that doesn't address the actual problem.
They'd have to keep it for businesses. So I guess next headline: number of uk sole traders jumps by 1400%.
Indeed. No doubt it'll be the usual "rules for thee, not for me" situation. It's only us peasants that don't deserve privacy or security after all.