• tourist@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    My networking knowledge may be out of date, but can’t you get around region locked sites with VPNs or Tor?

    I was in Turkey in July 2019. Wikipedia was blocked. I had to use Tor to access it. On installation I think I had to tick a special box that said something like “use flux capacitor bridge for blablabla countries like China and Turkey”

    Though In that case, Wikipedia didn’t give a fuck if you were accessing it from Tor. The government did.

    I know some sites block tor/VPN access for various reasons

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        22 days ago

        Doesn’t proton offer a free vpn with limits?

        Also, a vpn is pretty cheap. I wouldn’t say that it’s kids that would be using it, it would be adults who don;t want to upload their picture.

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          22 days ago

          Yes however they are literally move all their infrastructure to the UK so they won’t be an option soon.

          Windscribe is a thin too, but since they are Canadian and Canada is making stupid political deals with the US lately, it can’t be relied on either.