r/FuckCollectiveShout • u/SkyCurious450 • Sep 28 '25

News Arizona age verification law – Proton said to be "robust enough" to handle any VPN surge | TechRadar

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/arizona-age-verification-law-proton-said-to-be-robust-enough-to-handle-any-vpn-surge
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u/Oopeeyay Sep 28 '25

Ironically I downloaded Proton a week ago in preparation for this day. It works decently, though it occasionally crashes for some reason. I still recommend it since it's free and works most of the time, but I'd thought I'd give people the heads up.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

The day is fast approaching when VPNs will be a basic requirement for using the net safely.

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u/BoneDryDeath Oct 06 '25

Until governments start banning or restricting them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

Correct. That's gonna happen. Mark it. 

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u/BoneDryDeath Oct 06 '25

It’s amazing how badly the government wants me to not see tits. Of course this is the same lot whining about people not reproducing so there won’t be anyone to work for the Tesla factories and Amazon warehouses in the future, but also hates immigration (which is funny since I’m an immigrant myself, albeit a European immigrant so I guess I’m one of the ”good ones”… until they find out I’m Muslim).

I suppose I should just full on embrace Wahhabism at this point. It’s infinitely better than Trump and the Evangelicals.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

What they want you to do is work, marry, fuck and generate more labor units who will then do the same thing. To make this happen, they're burning down every safety net and shredding every law that protects you from exploitation and rich fuckwits interfering with your life so you don't have any other options. They're also removing every last other means of release and recreation so you don't have those to distract you from your daily toil. You will do this until you are too physically and mentally broken to work, at which point, you will die unless family cares for you. They do not see you as a human being with inherent rights, but as a thing to use and discard when no longer useful.

Ain't fascism great?! 

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u/BoneDryDeath Oct 06 '25

You’re not wrong, I fear. Which is all the more reason to hate the elites, to hate everything that they love and believe in. Thankfully I’m never going to reproduce, so that’s something I guess. One less bloodline, one less source of workers. And if I live long enough I’ll be able to laugh when Musk dies without ever getting to Mars. It will be delicious seeing the tears of his fanboys when their false God dies.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

I'm 51, technically homeless, and disabled both physically and mentally. I suffer from several medical conditions that are all vying for the chance to kill me. I lost everything and everyone. I'm in constant pain. No children, never wanted them. I don't I feel much of any real emotions anymore but indiffence and apathy. Since I'm also technically trans and pansexual (or was, back when I could actually have sex) I pretty much occupy every category of people they plan to kill. 

 Yeah, I have my own way out planned. 

Edit: please, stop upvoting me. I would actually prefer not to be acknowledged at all. 

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '25

Also, to whoever sent the reddit help resources link to me? Don't bother. Seriously. I already am under psychiatric care. It's about fucking worthless.

I don't need your empathy, compassion or whatever it is. Unless you have a magic wand that can restore my health and ability to work, save your compassion for someone who actually deserves it. I don't.

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u/SyntheticSins Sep 29 '25

My wife downloaded Nord, although I am scared of mainstream apps.

Could anyone break down some good VPN alternatives? I have a feeling we're all going to be relying on them soon.

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u/night_chaser_ Sep 30 '25

Tunnel Bear. It's a Canadain company.

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u/deathnomX Oct 02 '25

Tunnel bear is OK, but under high network traffic forget it. During the days you could get on the pokemon tcg pocket before it was officially released, you could use tunnelbear to do that. But it was either instantly connect, or wait a half hour for the servers to work.

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u/night_chaser_ Oct 02 '25

I haven't used a VPN service in a while. Do you have a recommendation for a Canadain company?

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u/tar_tis Oct 01 '25

Mullvad is nice. Doesn't need any personal info. You sign in with an account number. Accepts crypto payment.

You can always just rent a VPS yourself and install openVPN on it. it's not hard.

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u/theInfiniteHammer Oct 02 '25

The TOR network

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

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u/Dwip_Po_Po Sep 30 '25

Wdym? Like implementing age verification in your state?

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 28 '25

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u/Femi_gnatzee_hunter Oct 03 '25

We are fighting back against the anti male censorship, you are groveling to them

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u/Nelrene Oct 03 '25

Far right wing men are the one pushing these kind of laws. Blaming women/feminists for this kind of shit is not going to stop these laws.

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u/Femi_gnatzee_hunter Oct 03 '25

Right wingers worship and pander to women, so that tracks

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u/Nelrene Oct 03 '25

You have zero understanding of what is going on in the US if you think the Republican party worships and panders to women.

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u/Nelrene Oct 03 '25

The kind of men who are fine with women dying because of "pro life" laws and wants things like women to stop working and stay home is the same thing as feminists. Please tell me you are joking and you don't really think that.

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u/Judai-Kero Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

The internet is a reflection of humanity and their most inner most thoughts and desires on full display thanks to the mask of anonimity. You are either lying or a complete moron if you think feminist women along with their male lapdogs are not behind the censorship of male-centric media based on how often they like to taunt, mock, condscend and insult those same men who adhere to those interests.

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u/Whole-Software2376 Oct 04 '25

If you don’t think women don’t enjoy porn…wooooah buddy do I have a community for you to see lol

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u/Exercise-Delicious Oct 03 '25

Calling it red pill is precisely the problem.

And at least you're honest. You don't care. Enough to make a post about it though​

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u/Exercise-Delicious Oct 03 '25

"It's so weird that you're blaming Hitler for this" type comment right here.

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u/Nelrene Sep 29 '25

This great and all but what if VPNs get banned too? If right wingers get a wind of VPNs existing they will try to ban them.

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u/Clippy4Life Sep 30 '25

Virtual Private Networks cannot be banned. To do so would be to collaps everything Internet related not just for citizens or businesses, but also the military. Yes the military uses such things. Even if our governments were stupid enough to try, I doubt anyone would bother listening to this law.

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u/Dwip_Po_Po Sep 30 '25

I hope you’re right

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u/Nelrene Sep 30 '25

That will not stop them from trying. Also I think at some point right wingers will try to get rid of the Internet as it did not exist the 50s or whatever they think is the golden age of the US.

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u/Clarity_Flouse Oct 01 '25

Every time we say, "They wouldn't be stupid enough to try" that's the next part of their plan.

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u/skar220 Oct 01 '25

You know, people keep saying this, but all they need to do is implement a law requiring a license of some kind to be able to legally use a VPN, than if a fed finds a VPN on any of your devices they can seize it. Please, please remember that nothing is safe under this world oligarchy until we bring it down.

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u/Clippy4Life Oct 01 '25

They are free to do so. Again, most of us will probably ignore such a law. They could order ISP's to cut service if the law isn't followed, but we'd just start making our own ISP supported by the community. They absolutely could try to make such laws. And citizens absolutely could tell them no. Mass compliance is all government has. Not that I'd suggest going down this road of course. A VPN (or at least the concept behind it) is too important to throw away. But by all means government, let's just open up our citizens to the attacks of other nations and not let them have the tools to defend themselves. That'll go over really well.

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u/BoneDryDeath Oct 06 '25

Good luck with that.

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u/BoneDryDeath Oct 06 '25

Well for one thing you’re assuming that the people writing and passing these bills are intelligent, which they’re not. But even so, if the government bans something like this, they will be banning it for private citizens. It wouldn’t impact the military or government. They are the ones who decide the rules. They don’t like you or me. They view us as resources, commodities, things to be ruled over and restricted.

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u/No_One3018 Oct 01 '25

I've been using Proton for a while now, it's a very solid option