This could all be solved with some zero knowledge proof technology so they can just prove your age and gain absolutely no tracking capabilities, but of course that will never happen.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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Next it’s going to be attacks against VPNs.
We're a ways off from that, simply because VPNs have too much business utility.
But we're definitely moving in the direction of "Everyone who uses the internet has to show their ID first" as a means of tracking the bulk of retail web surfing.
I mean, they get your social when you purchase service.
Not if you're just renting a server in a foreign country with different privacy laws and rolling your own VPN.
Also some VPNs allow payment with cryptocurrency.
Mullvad, for instance, accepts Monero, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Bitcoin Lightning.
I meant Internet service. Cox or Comcast or Verizon or whoever.
True, but if you use a VPN and don't use their DNS (and especially if you set up a recursive DNS server of your own) they have a lot less information about what you do online.
Probably going to see an uprise in things like lorawan or consumer-owned mesh networks.
Essentially a return of the rural barbed wire phone network.
Not connected to the larger internet, locally managed and controlled. I can even see pirates rolling out their own streaming services to people on the local mesh network.
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I'm old enough to legally view any form of pornography that's legal to create.
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There is no legitimate government interest in monitoring my pornographic habits.
Maybe if you so-called prudish fucks ever had an ounce of self-control it wouldn't be exploding so much, would it?
It's just like how the places with the most anti-trans sentiment consume the most trans pornography. It's all about removing the temptation because they have zero self control. "I can't be trusted to not spend every waking moment jerking off because deep down I'm a filthy depraved fucking cretin, so I must take away joy from everyone else who might use pornography responsibly!"
Especially now, when Palantir is making a giant database on US citizens from Federal government data, why would anyone feel comfortable identifying themselves to a pornography site? To be on some list someday that will be used by the religious police to jail you for the crime of jerking off to the "wrong" thing? Give me a break.
On the other hand, jerk off as much as you want to. Jerking off doesn’t hurt anyone, go for it.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. It's only a bad thing when you want to limit others because of your own lack of self control as a means to control yourself.
Well if you do it too much, you can indeed hurt yourself.
Hell, one time I had been having so much sex so frequently that my dick literally got swollen from too much abuse. Kind of freaked me out at first.
Time to start finding woods porn again. Maybe this time USB drives scattered in the underbrush.
Geocaching porn network?
GeoFappr?
Honestly doesn't sound like a bad idea
Helps curb the sedentary lifestyle epidemic as well! I’m all for it. Think of the ~~senator’s~~ ~~yards~~ interesting natural locations where you could hide caches.
So dumb.
May they suffer the wrath of their porn-deprived populace.
So, keep up geoblocking the Idiot State, with a page listing all those politicians and judges who caused this.
A good idea in theory, but something tells me that somebody logging into PornHub isn't exactly going to be receptive to politics at that particular moment.
You might be surprised. There's some really gross right-wing power fantasy porn hitting front pages.