alt Hacker NewsI was already using Tor Browser for sites that UK ISPs are banned from letting me access.
I continue to use Tor Browser for entirely innocuous sites that are collateral damage of the OSA.
For example, the Interactive Fiction Archive. All its game files are voluntarily blocked in the UK by its well-meaning but stupid operators. Even games intended for children. They should stop complying and just serve up all their files to everyone. If a teenager learns what a. z5 file even is, they deserve to be able to play it.
Any reddit thread where someone said naughty words? "Oh we're going to need your phone number and a facial". I don't think so, Mr Data Harvester. Click on URL, Ctrl+c, alt-tab to Tor Browser, Ctrl+v, "Are you over 18?" Yes I am. See how easy that is?
I hate my government.
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Not only your government. The Conservatives who proposed it. Labour who provided no opposition. But most importantly Ofcom, who comprehensively failed to implement a competent and reasonable solution.
Everyone could have done a lot better, and could have achieved the stated aims without so much damage.
I use Orbot on Android - which provides a Tor connection. I'm not sure why people are paying for VPNs for the small number of sites that are blocked in the UK.