• Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      I’m one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.

      I’m thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven’t had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don’t need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I’d be cool with just one seat.

      Anyone got recommendations?

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
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      Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.

      Admittedly, it’s not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I’m not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I’m certainly not going to do it for porn

      • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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        Several states with republican leadership have required identification to view sites that have “adult content”. You technically can still access it without a VPN in these states, but I’m not trusting these sites with personally identifying information. Depending on the state I think you have to upload an image of your ID and other information. It’s really sketchy.

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      Oh man, this is a much better comparison.

      It’s still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn’t banned, but it’s effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.

      But this also allegedly targets “culture”, just like China’s great firewall. It’s pretty damn stupid.