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What happens if the UK requires age verification for VPN’s (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by mysticmartz@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hello ,

As the title says what happens if theUK requires age verification for VPN’s or makes it illegal to use them?

Does that mean everyone will move to tor or I2P?

It seems if the UK gov keep pushing their agenda under the guise of protecting children people will increasingly go dark .

I guess what I’m asking is how does everyone think this will unfold?

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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

So, current issue I'm trying to solve.

Discord is kind if innately de-annonymized because I've talked about where I live for the purposes of visiting people.
Discord cannot make voice calls through VPNs.

Should I try and find a workaround for that or just use discord from the desktop app and keep it segregated from my other traffic while accepting its compromised without even the minor protection of a VPN.

Or go full paranoid and make a brand new account and re-grab my old friends which creates an identifiable but not immediately obvious link to an old account (and then just self censor my own speech from then on out to avoid self doxing)

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Discord is bad because it's centralized. So I would recommend something like simpleX, which protects your privacy. If your friends don't want to use it, then you need better friends because they should understand that you care about yours and their privacy.

As for real-time calling, that uses UDP, which is why something like Tor can't do it, since it's a TCP-only network, so either you need to find something that will let calls work over TCP, or give up on the idea of real-time calls and switch to voice messages, which can do over TCP.

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Discord cannot make voice calls through VPNs

I've never had any issues with this, am I missing something? Is my VPN not configured properly?