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Sure, people just stopped watching porn. 🙄
Where did they see a sudden massive increase is the question
VPNs ...
Do you understand how vpns work?
I think his intention was that from the UK's perspective, there would be a massive increase in VPN traffic that they can't determine the content of. The endpoints of that traffic would be varied and basically irrelevant.
But if people are using a VPN you would see the same amount of traffic still... and you can track that... why i said what I said... because it would be interesting so see where people would be choosing to view those websites instead...
Because people didn't stop like the headline would like you to believe
They say Pornhub's and Xvideo's traffic was down 50% after the law change. I doubt 50% of their traffic comes from UK so those must be the number of UK viewers - not total traffic. If half of the porn users in UK switched to VPNs then you'd see UK traffic go down but increase in some other region.
why would they track traffic from another country watching porn though?
and also these laws only effect porn sites that respect the law. so you have banned an outlet for a societal human need? history shows that you push normal people into illegality. such as speak easies.
The people that saw - didn’t. Ne c’est pas?