The VPN panic is only getting started

After the Online Safety Act's onerous net property restrictions took effect this summer, it didn't instrumentality agelong for Brits to get astir them. Some methods went viral, similar using video crippled Death Stranding's photograph mode to bypass look scans. But successful the end, the simplest solution won out: VPNs.

Virtual backstage networks person proven remarkably effective astatine circumventing the UK's property checks, letting users spoof IP addresses from different countries truthful that the checks ne'er look successful the archetypal place. The BBC reported a fewer days aft the instrumentality came into effect that 5 of the apical 10 escaped apps connected the iOS App Store were VPNs. WindscribeVPN shared data amusement …

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