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Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2) (www.aylo.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

There calling it NoFap February.

I think it will be interesting to see what happens as a result of cuting a population off from porn.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas did the same shit not long ago. VPN usage went through the roof, as expected.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I remember when you didn't have to have a VPN to enjoy the internet.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (12 children)

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This leaves citizens with a torrent of questions.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You really need a VPN to torrent safely, and the UK Government is in the process of restricting VPNs.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

I guarantee there will still be VPNs accessible in the UK no matter what they try. My money is definitely on Mullvad still being accessible for one.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Tally ho chaps. God hates wankers.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Uk is even more puritanical than the US,

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's where the puritans came from.

[–] shane@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

They fled Britain and stayed in Holland a few years first.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coz thats the only place porn exists

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Policy makers so naive

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

sorry I don't know what any of these things are

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So that's why that back mirror episode with the pig was set in the UK. They knew.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It‘s a British series.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like it were gonna go back to private VPNs with 10/20 people putting in each month to pay someone in a unrestricted area to run them a VPN.

Keep it small, make it look like enterprise kinda shit.

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[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Have the porn companies released numbers on how affected their traffic has been with an these new rules? I could see them not wanting to they're getting hurt but would be interesting to see

[–] Yezzey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

They don't need those wankers!

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter

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