The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.
  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Providers that I do know of probably don’t work in your country. Personally I run my own VPN servers. You just buy a cheap VPS in some country with not too much censorship (Netherlands is a pretty good one but it might not be in the future due to EU shenanigans), then you can use something like X-UI panel to easily make a VPN server. X-UI also supports a bunch of other VPN protocols, including more common ones like Wireguard, so you could start with making your own Wireguard VPN before moving on to something more advanced

    • whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      8·
      14 days ago

      (Netherlands is a pretty good one but it might not be in the future due to EU shenanigans)

      if it gets to that would the non eu balkan countries be a safe bet for getting a vps server? (like albania bosnia serbia etc)

      • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        14 days ago

        would definitely be an improvement if/when the Netherlands starts cracking down on privacy. General rule of thumb for picking a VPN exit node is you should try crossing legal boundaries. So for example if you are living in the EU, prefer some country outside of the EU that won’t enforce EU laws and is less likely to cooperate with EU/western intelligence services. The thinking is that even if those countries don’t respect your privacy, at least they are less likely to rat you out to your own government