Anstieg der VPN-Downloads, nachdem Pornhub australische Nutzer wegen New-Age-Gesetzen blockiert
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/surge-in-vpn-downloads-after-pornhub-blocks-aussie-users-over-new-age-laws/news-story/84117e44c4253d6b9f479c5b22708d4e
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Part article: Australian downloads of VPN apps have skyrocketed as one of the world’s biggest pornography websites begins blocking Down Under users in protest of new age verification laws.
Aylo, a Canadian company operating explicit websites including Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn and Tube8, has placed restrictions on access by Australian users.
As a result, downloads for virtual private network apps have dramatically increased.
VPN Super Unlimited Proxy, is now ranked third for top downloads right under ChatGPT and Claude by Anthropic.
Tailscale is better than vpn
Can you imagine if we somehow found out that VPN companies lobbied for this?
Could someone tell me why explicit *content* is being gated to 18+ when the age of digital consent is 13?
This won’t stop children, pedophiles or terrorists. High school kids learn and share ways to bypass blocks, as do people undertaking criminal activity. This will just erode privacy and it’s a worrying step enabling authoritarian leaders.
And as new VPNs arise from the shadows … the price war begins.
Additionally, the free ones will be most popular with kids.
Can’t imagine what a rogue VPN can do with a kid’s phone …
This is all gonna end in tears… NOT, a happy ending.
In the UK we had a massive surge in VPN usage. We also saw that these laws put people at far more risks than any protections. These laws increased the risk of adults and children seeing illegal content rather than legal porn. That means CSAM and non consenting content. It caused increased risks for data breaches which means more risks for fraud and financial crimes, increased risk for blackmail. Sextortion has been massively on the rise for the last decade and resulted in multiple suicides so this is also a massive risk with these new laws.
The people lobbying for these laws do so to personally profit or to outright ban sexuality. These organisations lobbying governments are often religious extremists and their goal is to suppress LGBTQ rights and women’s rights.
every single time a government tries age verification for adult content, the same exact thing happens:
1. major sites block users or add verification
2. VPN downloads spike
3. users move to sketchier unregulated sites that don’t comply
4. kids who were supposedly being „protected“ now learn to use VPNs at age 12 and access even worse content with zero guardrails
5. everyone’s privacy is worse, children are not safer, politicians declare victory
UK tried this in 2019 and quietly abandoned it. multiple US states have gone through the same cycle. now australia. the evidence that these laws don’t work is overwhelming at this point — but they keep passing because no politician wants to vote against „protecting children.“
the real kicker: the top downloaded VPN is some random free one. free VPNs are basically spyware. so now you’ve got people routing all their traffic through god knows what server to avoid a law that was supposed to protect them. incredible.
Almost all porn sites are pretty god awful, just a cess pool of ads, and broken links. I think blocking Pornhub, is a disservice to the general population…
They’re going to be disappointed to learn VPNs won’t work either since their IP ranges are commonly known and can easily be blocked.
Can we stop marketing vpn, they’ll block that as well
I don’t get the need to HAVE to use pornhub. There are so many sites not based in a country doing mandatory age verification to use. And it’s all free.
Does none compliance make you a New Age Outlaw?
Pornhub should invest in VPN’s tbh. This could be a great partnership.
okay? pornhub is crap. who is still using it? all it is is 30 second previews
What’s crazy is this lock down isn’t really about making sure kids don’t watch porn it’s really a way to get adults to register and offer up their driver license information.