As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.
Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.
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ITT: People who don’t realize the advanced nature of fingerprinting that makes VPNs nearly useless in an authoritarian environment
https://www.browserleaks.com/
I just don’t want some company having a picture of me in my dressing gown getting ready for a big wank.
The VPN is not supposed to protect you from an authoritarian government, it’s meant to bypass the ID requirement, which it does very well.
All it takes is Firefox with some tweaking. Or simply use it with chameleon (browser plugin) that throws fingerprinting off big time.
That’s not the issue though, as long as my IP can teleport to a normal country, I can view whatever I want.
Does DNS and having a privacy focused browser work?
Fingerprinting still does a lot. If you want to do hard, use a VPN inside a VM. Even harder? Use multiple different VMs and a VPS with a VPN.
It can. Some built in ad blockers like on brave will even skip YouTube ads.
Usually it helps but not as much as most people think. Very few people actually use a privacy focused browser, so that in and of itself is surprisingly identifying.