Does this mean there will be less mainstream interest with step porn?
Fucking finally.
One VPN I use has servers in most us states.
Auto connected to a mandatory ID state and a porn site demanded I take a picture of my id.
(Edit: I have it set to auto connect to fastest on start. I can change location and have 100 free servers to chose in the US. More in Japan and Netherlands. ProtonVPN)
I set up ProtonVPN on my wifi as a separate SSID. I had to select a specific server, so I picked one that’s relatively close (for better latency) and doesn’t have the same restrictions my state has. It’s easy to switch, I just need to go tweak the settings in my router.
If my kids ever need to submit ID for something (e.g. social media), I’ll hook them up w/ the VPN to bypass our draconian laws. The government has no place on the internet, and I will circumvent their stupid policies. If I don’t trust my kids on the internet, I’m not going to look to the government to protect them, I’ll just take away their internet privileges.
Indiana isn’t the south, but might as well be. Oh well, at least I have a vpn. (Queue pornhub intro)
Of all porn sites, porn hub sucks the hardest, and i don’t mean the right kind of sucking. There are way better sites for that
These days on pornhub, search for a category and you get 200 clips that have nothing to do with said search terms, but which apparently get them a lot of money
What are the good alternatives? Usually all porn sites I’ve came across suck. Their Interface looks like shit and the content is mid at best.
So many sites out there.
Use DuckDuckGo and aeatxh for “porn NAME” where NAME is the name of some porn actress and you’ll find 50 different sites
Not all of them look great but at least they have functional search, which Pornhub doesn’t have.
Try spankbang.com, it has loads of full versions of small clips from pornhub
My friend wants to know the best vpn provider with the lowest price.
mullvad
If you don’t torrent.
They pussied out and removed port forwarding mid last year to have more “legitimacy.”
Given their other privacy features, I’m okay with it. It’s easy to get another VPN for a month and do all the torrenting you need.
I haven’t had a problem with it. Am I missing something?
Torrents only work if at least one side has port forwarding enabled. And you don’t want to rely on other people having their ports open. In order to ensure you can actually connect to a seeder/peer, it’s best practice to enable port forwarding on your end.
The issue with this is that many VPN providers have stopped offering port forwarding services, because kiddy diddlers figured out a way to use port forwarding to privately share CSAM. So it has become difficult to torrent with a VPN, because pedos somehow manage to ruin everything.
I may have to look into a new VPN provider. What provider would you recommend that isn’t sus? Thank you!
That’s part of the issue; All of the “best” VPNs have stopped offering port forwarding. Mullvad and Proton are the gold standard for VPNs, but neither offer port forwarding. Private Internet Access still offers it, but they were bought out by a marketing company that was caught sneaking adware into their programs. PIA’s service is still good, but it relies on you trusting an ad company with your internet traffic. They claim to not save any logs or use your data, but they’ve also been found to be liars in the past with that adware scandal.
I agree with everything except the following bit of wrong info: protonvpn does allow port forwarding on their paid plans. source: i am using it, and https://protonvpn.com/support/port-forwarding
@daggermoon@lemmy.world
Your torrents are likely not as fast as they could be then
If you do not yet know how to use a VPN, you will learn in fast order.
This will be the next malware/info leak.
It basically already is because you know most people are just going to lookup a free VPN who has every motive to obtain as much information as possible about the user and sell it.
Sucks so hard that it’s the only porn site in the world and that there is absolutely no other way to get your hands in porn, now. Oh boy oh boy, what are they going to do now to get off? I lean, priests there have their choir boys but the common Joe on the block?
The point is that the individual states are requiring government issued photo ids to view pornography, and pornhub is instead blocking the states rather than giving up people’s right for privacy.
How are they ever going to enforce that?
I install a VPN and done, I watch porn withuut you knowing
What’s next? You’re going to outlaw VPNs? I van use other techniques, like an ssh tunnel. Are you going to outlaw encryption then to ensure that people don’t watch naught videos?
Good luck with that.
The point isn’t to get around the block. The people who passed that bill have no idea how the internet works. It should make people upset they need to bypass this gross invasion of privacy.
They want them to breed.
They think blocking porn sites one by one is going to stop guys from getting access to porn. Haven’t they heard of bit torrent? tor? proxies and vpns? What are they going to do about foreign sites and sites that have mixed content like reddit?
Ridiculous law.
Not advocating for universal access to porn or anything but is there any linkage or study showing a detrimental affect of porn on kids? A few things I’ll say from my own experiences. I first saw porn around 10 years old and I thought it was gross and didn’t have any desire to search for more. Later, in my early teens, I did search out porn but only softcore, because I thought vaginas were ugly. I did get a porn obsession for a long time and it did negatively impact at least one relationship, but that could’ve gone differently if my girlfriend was into any kind of porn (some girls are).
It’s a vice and can easily become addictive but I could also see video games filling the same role.
The only thing wrong with porn is the moral judgement some associate with it.
Just because you think porn is immoral does not make it true.
I worked in the porn industry for almost a decade. I see no moral issues with it, but there is growing evidence that porn addiction is a problem for many.
You are incorrect.
If this were true then folks who looked at more porn would be more likely to be addicted.
The number one predictor of porn addiction is religious affiliation, not porn use.
What you are saying is simply not true.
The problem is their moral beliefs are not in sync with their thoughts and desires, which causes guilt etc.
Scientists have reached consensus that porn addiction is not a thing.
What needs to be treated instead of porn addiction is the moral beliefs of the individual which are not in agreement with their porn use, which can cause stress anxiety and real health issues.
But the issue is the persons moral beliefs, not the porn use.
I’d like to see what study you based your argument on, because I’ve done enough reading that what you’re saying doesn’t ring any bells. I’m an atheist and as mentioned previously worked in the porn industry for several years.
I see porn similarly to alcohol, most people are fine with it in moderation, but many struggle with addiction. I don’t think it’s appropriate for kids, but I also think it’s none of the government’s business and should be managed by parents, because the alternative opens the door to a huge risk for doxxing responsible consumers.
And yeah, video games are similar as well, many are okay with it, and many struggle with addiction, which unfortunately seems to have a much higher chance of draining your bank account than a porn addiction. That said, I don’t think it’s the government’s business, and parents should manage this for their kids.
Please look over yourbrainonporn.com.
There is plenty of evidence that some people struggle with compulsory sex disorder. Porn addiction can lead to erectile dysfunction. Many on the internet won’t admit it and will down vote any discussion of the topic for some reason.
Porn addiction can lead to erectile dysfunction
a ton of stuff just started to make sense
My understanding is that it’s not necessarily porn addiction that causes this, but a particular style of masturbation that some people refer to as “death grip”. Source: a friend of mine who used to masturbate every night before bed to sleep better, but this began causing issues with his partner due to ED. He eventually solved it by using a different grip while masturbating.
In short, if you feel like you’ve come away from this conversation with things to reflect on, then that’s great and I’m glad about that. However, “porn addiction”, as a term, describes a whole bundle of stuff that is still pretty poorly understood, because it can be hard to discern between symptoms and causes
Speaking of which, can anyone please tell me why XHamster now requires a Virgina ID to visit the website, even though I live nowhere near that shithole?
- Why does it have to be a Virginia ID specifically?
- How the hell am I going to get a Virginia ID from out of state?
- Why would anyone give a porn site their ID to begin with? That’s a major invasion of privacy.
- It thinks your connection comes from Virginia for some reason. Specifically, it thinks your public IP geomaps there. You can use https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see where their database would pin it.
- You can’t
- They really shouldn’t. But the sites are asking for them because they are required, by law. The alternative is to block those connections, as PornHub decided to do.
Such laws now exist in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
So basically only the worst states in the country have this law. Color me surprised.
Are you using iCloud Relay or a similar service? Your IP is set to or is being routed through Virginia.
No but I use a 3rd party DNS, which might have something to do with it, now that you mention it.
DNS translates a domain name “example.com” to an ip address pointing to the server. It tells your browser how to reach the server. It is unlikely the reason.
the common way to detect your location is by checking your ip address. Usually there is a database (i.e. maxmind) that keeps a record of which ip address subnet belongs to which location.
you can do a check with a reverse ip geolocation lookup tool to verify this.
so either:
- the company haven’t updated their database yet
- your IP range was recently bought or rotated by your isp
