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Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?
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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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You can always just route your traffic through a roll your own tunnel to some cheap cloud VM. Modern automation makes it even painless.
People won't do that as we are lazy as a species. Any sort of friction and the people who do it well drop considerably.
People used to not use VPNs too - until they realized how useful they can be by spread in pop culture and increasing tech awareness of the general public.
If commercial VPNs are banned the tech savvy will move onto a replacement immediately, and the knowledge will slowly expand through social circles and social media until it has similar penetration in society.
A VPN ban would be both harmful (to business and consumers short term) and pointless.
When privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.
I do this. I already had a cloud vps with a vpn on it for remote access so i figured i might as well set it up to route traffic as well.
Still get loads of sites blocking me
I do exactly this, but it doesn’t protect your privacy. That one IP address is literally tied to your credit card number and you are the only person using it.
It takes lawful intercept by ISP out of the loop and the egress point should be in a minimally cooperative jurisdiction. You know the endpoint is known good since you're the admin and the IP is not in a known VPN exit blocklist. Of course economically it makes sense to share tunnels with family and friends.