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whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net to europe@hexbear.netEnglish · 17 days ago

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

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The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.

nice to see the EU is also going all in with fucking over vpns too, glad to see we aren’t alone! niko-happy

sauce tweet https://nitter.net/EP_EPRS/status/2051959573917929731?

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    And you don’t have IP issues or anything like that? Like getting blocked or anything? I just assumed websites etc would take issue with being connected to a data center IP

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      The only site I noticed blocking me is reddit, everything else works fine. I think blocking data center IPs would probably break a bunch of shit

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        Did you learn of vless from Reddit?

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          I think I learned about it from habr.com

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