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No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill (www.cbc.ca)

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No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill::A Senate bill might cause the owners of Pornhub to block access to the site in Canada, its owners say.

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[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 59 points 9 months ago

In a world where there's VPN ads literally everywhere and even bitcoin ATMs, I'm sure that will be of tremendous effectiveness

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago

VPN bans are next.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

How do you ban a VPN? If I connect to a server that's a big cloud provider, how do you know the connection is to a VPN or a website?

[-] nihilvain@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

With deep packet inspection they can detect a VPN protocol connection attempt and drop it. There are already countries utilizing this method.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Only works if you use a protocol that can be detected.

https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core/ has been defeating Chinese censors

[-] nihilvain@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

Yes, my point is that banning protocols will kill all the commercial VPN offerings. Restricting a big size of the population. Obscure protocols like X-Ray can work but not everyone can set it up.

And I think you can also raise some suspicion if you use too much bandwidth on that connection. GBs of data consumption from MyTotallyLegitWebsite.me can raise eyebrows. And that would be the only thing needed for a court notice or a visit by the police, depending upon the country. And in anti-democratic countries you're guilty until proven innocent anyway.

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

There are commercial xray servers where you just share them with people for a subscription price and it automatically updates with the freshest info

GBs of data from a connection is not that uncommon. There's a thing called cloudflare and you might already be hitting those IPs for gigabytes per month. You can route the VPN through cloudflare so it just looks like you're visiting a lot of websites hosted by cloudflare

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