How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘
Context: UK passed this online safety act thing a few days ago (source) where you have to verify your age on sites that might contain nsfw content and the checks involve stuff like uploading a photo of your face, ID or even your passport. if anything it's just making people more unsafe (look what happened with the Tea app which required similar verification (source)). ain't gonna dox myself to the government/companies and it's easily circumvented using TOR lol. fuck da system🤘
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There is also VPN, but I hear they are trying to outlaw that in the UK too.
Yea I know. if they ban VPN's and block access to the TOR download website I've got TOR saved on USB's and I'll send a copy to anyone who wants it lmao
Tor is loud and every ISP sees encrypted traffic that screams "I dunno, but it's tor traffic."
It's no free pass when the government is pressuring ISPs to tattle on encrypted traffic.
Be careful y'all. Don't be calm, but be Fing careful, too.
I can't remember the term/name anymore, but wasn't there a way to mask TOR traffic as standard HTTPS?
OBFS4 bridges.
Also the slower snowflake protocol that masks traffic as a video call protocol
Ah, thanks!
make sure to get some bridge adresses too! without bridges, ur ISP can still see that ur using Tor
Done! 👍
Is there a guide or reputable YouTube video that provides instructions/links?
I did it by just clicking the three horizontal lines at the top right corner > settings > search "bridges" > request bridges
My bad, I wasn’t specific. I looking for something comprehensive for non-techies with a desire to be safe on the Webster.
this is a good guide on how to use the browser safely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3wmLvny5tg
They have ruled out banning vpns for now but that's not to say that they won't just U-turn or that whoever gets in next won't ban them.
The UK's Trump whose party is currently the most popular in the UK and may win the next election (I hate this) has pledged to repeal this law but he's well known for making promises he has no intention of keeping and this law is very convenient as a means of censorship.
As good at keeping his promise as Trump is! Which, of course, is why eggs are cheap, there are no more wars, and we have the full Epstine files. /S
Its possible to still use one with obfuscation, Don't get caught!
cool meme but there's a sign for no P. why isn't man peeing
Maybe his last name is Park
Parker is a fairly common English lastname too
How do you know he isn't
Fool, watch your tongue. You're speaking about the king of par
> posts meme about what it means to be using TOR as a Brit rn.
> On an instance that needs TOR or a VPN to access from the UK
Ha! I see what you did there.
Thin chips = french fries
Thick chips = chips
What Americans call chips = crisps
Sadly, we do call skinny chips "french fries" over here.
Also, the fry in your gif isn't french 🍟
I used a VPN yesterday to see how it looks in the UK. Seems a lot of porn sites don't give a shit about UK and don't require any verification. So once again, the law abiding sites are punished while kids are pushed towards the lawless ones. As predicted.
are you telling me the thing that's meant to harvest personal data isn't useful as a child protective tool?
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
Whatever the meme is I can't see it because lemmings.world blocks access to the UK now 🤣
Everybody should download Tor Snowflake so we can help people circumvent TOR censorship.
https://snowflake.torproject.org/
Is it possible to choose an exit node? Because if the exit node's in UK, it presumably doesn't help with the geoblocking aspect.
yes! theres a "new identity" button that effectively does this
idk i'm not too well versed with this type of stuff but I've tried accessing sites that've geoblocked the uk and have access! you just have to be sure the ip isn't from the UK, if it is, clicking "new identity" sorts it out usually
It could be possible if they decide to implement that, since the TOR browser tells you the circuit (The path your connection takes) it could theoretically just request a new circuit until it gets an exit node that matches your preference. At least with the most basic implementation that's what could be done, not very optimized though.
I just hope they won't move toward the "oh, you use encryption? Let's see how it protects you from solitary in jail" step too fast.
And no, I'm not sarcastic, I'm worried.
But tor is slow af isn't it?
Depends on the site, for Lemmy it seems just a lil bit slower
Is aroubd 10-20 mbps now
its been quite fast for a while now. i often get around 3-4 MB/s (24-32Mbps) downloading files.
I2p
Or using a vpn your friend jn the empire paid for so ice wouldn't murder her for looking at porn that's too gay.
80% sure that's a racoon, not a cat
You are incorrect. That is a tortoise shell cat.
negative. it's a meat popsicle.
Aren't we all?
Can’t be a popsicle until you ram a stick up me.
Coolest guy in the world
Coolest Cat in the world
It bothers me that the sunglasses are in front of the diagonal. That diagonal is also the wrong way.
It would be great to have a restriction stronger than "are you 18 years or older?" so I can let my kids roam the internet without care. But this is a bit backwards.
There were restrictions in the UK before this latest measure got put in place, ISP providers provide it so parents could manage it. But my guess is a large proportion of parents were either too stupid to use, didn't care, or simply didn't know. Broadband parental control.
... There has been. It'd called blocklists. UK specifically even had it at the IP level, but excluding that there's extensions that also block that stuff. There's actually many ways to block that stuff.
There are plenty of options for blocking unwanted material from kids.
This is a leap towards removing any anonymity or privacy online so you can be punished for wrongthink - there is nothing here which helps protect children any better than what was already in place.
We should always be wary of laws being passed in the name of "protecting the children", because often they are used to justify government overreach, censorship, and good old fashioned authoritarianism.
Parents should educate themselves on how to curate a healthy online experience for their child, and I dare say maybe don't shove in iPad in their face from being a baby just to keep them quiet.
Or just be a good parent and don't rely on censorship laws to be your babysitter.
Obviously, but not everyone is a good parent. What happens to those kids?
They end up the same as all of us.
Low-key if you're that incompetent you don't know about any kind of parental blocking you shouldn't have kids in the first place. We really don't need more stupid in the gene pool
Unfortunately that's not how it works.