[hmlwilliams]

UK visitors not using a VPN down 77%

[DagsEoress]

You believe all children know how to operate a VPN?

[schnebbau]

This is the problem. Adults thinking children are useless. Don't you remember being a kid?

Whenever there's a blocker (one case from my childhood was how to use net send to broadcast profanity across the network), someone will figure it out, and by the end of the day EVERYONE knows.

[plqbfbv]

It's not like they need to `sudo apt install openvpn` and tweak the config file manually and tinker with routes and firewall rules afterwards.

Basically every youtube video for the past decade has been sponsored by a VPN service offering first-joiner discounts. My cousin uses a VPN and has no idea what it is and how it works, just that "he should protect himself while browsing". Those VPNs have invested massively in UX and ease of use so out of that 77% of users, I'd guess more than 80% of it switched to VPNs.

[carus]

Maybe not all, but kids pickup things fast. When I was young the school tried to block a popular flash games website, one lunch hour later and somehow we all learned how to use a VPN. I'd say I owe a lot of my technical ability to learning how to circumvent restrictions on school computers and whatever my parents tried to setup on the home computer.

[Lio]

> You believe all children know how to operate a VPN

Yes. That’s exactly what we believe.

Do you believe that 77% of UK Pornhub users suddenly stopped wanking?

Seems pretty implausible to me.

[InsideOutSanta]

Based on my childhood memories, I would say kids are the most likely to figure out how to get a free VPN and look at porn that way.

Or just find another porn site that doesn't adhere to the law.

[Ekaros]

Lot of them do. Especially hormonal teenagers who have both lot of time and energy to find solutions. Not to forgot the lure of forbidden.

[forgotoldacc]

20 years ago, kids were using proxies and VPNs to get around forum bans. Kids today are most certainly still using VPNs.

[consp]

Are you suggesting kids are not digitally versed and have no capability of searching and learning?

[hyperjeff]

relevant Dilbert: https://www.flubu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/wpid-p...

[bitfilped]

Do you think children are a significant portion of the porn traffic?

[bearburger]

Come on. Get out of your bubble and go touch grass. There are more restrictive countries than UK/EU/US will become in visible future. And customer-level censorship circumvention technologies have gone so far that most services are just one-button apps. And the children who can't press one button usually just don't have a phone.

[pogue]

Operate one? You mean download an app and switch the VPN to "on"?

[brazukadev]

You believe 77% of Pornhub UK visitors are children?

[ghusto]

You don't have children, I take it.