Pornhub is protesting this law and others by blocking the site.

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

  • Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    I think a vpn is simpler than tor personally. Also then videos gonna be buffering for a minute on tor lol

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      It’s not “simpler” at all because it includes the step of paying. But, indeed, better for this application.

      • z3rOR0neEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Not necessarily. Granted installing the Tor browser will set up the services/daemons and access to the appropriate ports in the background, but generally the Tor protocol has a lot more going on than a VPN.

        Additionally a VPN can be had for free from certain services like ProtonVPN. It’s not as fast as a paid VPN service, but during lower traffic times it’ll suffice. Plus if you know how to torrent over a VPN, then you just download the vids that way and you don’t need internet access every time you want to watch it.

        This plus using CLI tools like yt-dlp on sites like pornhub, xhamster, etc, and you really start to realize how ineffective bullshit laws like these are for increasingly more technically savvy youths.