Can you believe this mess? Texas has gone full authoritarian, blocking access to adult content like we’re living in China.
Just found out they’ve practically declared war on Pornhub for not policing viewers’ ages aggressively enough. As a result, Texans are now exiled from the site, thanks to this stupid age verification law…
As Pornhub, one of the largest adult entertainment websites, has completely shut down services in Texas, everyone’s jumping on the VPN bandwagon. It’s our last resort.
I saw NordVPN and their discounts being mentioned under pretty much every post by the users so I’m thinking of getting it too. It gets down to 3 bucks per month so not too bad I guess…
This should work, right?
Update: I just went with Nord. r/vpn had some redditoffer coupon. It worked and even gave me extra months.
Yes, VPNs with presence in states which aren’t blocked will work fine. I use PrivateInternetAccess.
I tried pornhub just to see the message. Then switched my VPN to Louisiana and got a different tailored block message. Switched to Kansas, and yet another diff tailored block message. Next lowest latency POP was Atlanta, and that loaded the actual site unblocked.
IVPN and Mullvad are highly regarded, I think Windscribe and ProtonVPN as well.
I’ve used PIA in the past and don’t recall having any showstopping issues, though that was before covid
Check out a VPN relationship map (like this one) to see ties between VPN providers, corporations, and paid affiliates. They won’t give you any real dirt, but you can at least figure out the undoubtedly shady providers from them
We live in the least free state. I can’t believe it’s the porn got people up in arms. Goddam guns got more rights than our women. Corporations fully protected, Texas wild animals almost no protections.
Yes, people have been using VPNs forever to get around location restrictions. The Texas GOP knows this, it’s all just posturing and pandering to their base of 65+ who think we need a theocracy and don’t know how to save a PDF.