The Deck has done incredibly well, but they can't manufacture enough to make your numbers make sense. Also, last I saw, Linux streaming was around 5%.

However, yeah, most people won't know how to use these tools. There will probably be a ton of sites that pop up temporarily that don't have age verification. Any time they go after them it'll go down, and a new one will appear. They'll be sketchy sites, but that's how most people will avoid it if they want to avoid it.

Most of the mainstream social media is blocked where I am. Good news: a huge part of even uneducated population does indeed learn to evade censorship. Bad news: they tend use the most easily-accessible services, which are sketchy, like reselling the users' IPs as residential proxies.

I found out students in my kids highschool were using VPNs to play roblox on the network (bypassing IT's block). They way they did it was 1. Search "VPN" in the app store or play store. 2. Install the first result.

That's probably a good model of what mass adoption of VPNs would look like.

• my own kids got a tailscale app connecting to my headscale network in 10 minutes and me wiping my brow that I dodged a bullet.

The normies are mad . I use Arch BTW.