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Comment by bapak

9 days ago

Leaving the complexity of attempting to circumvent the great firewall aside, VPN isn't free. Not many are willing to drop £60+/year just to avoid identifying yourself on PH. Easier to find a website that doesn't enforce it.

In the UK case, TOR seems to happily get around these restrictions for free (I gave it a quick check yesterday). I'd imagine that there might be some kind of crackdown on TOR exit nodes in the future though

  • People in the UK generally believe that the only people who use Tor are those looking for child pornography, even though it's an anti-censorship tool.

    I'd be careful if I were you. The police could use that as an excuse to raid you.

    • The police aren’t going to raid you for using Tor any more than they would for you using a VPN.

> VPN isn't free. Not many are willing to drop £60+/year

Yes it is, well, the shady ones that make you part of a botnet are. Those are the ones people are going to predominantly use.