▲ 369 ▼ Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 88 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (4 children) That's why you connect to Canada permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (3 children) If I need a Canada connection for free I might switch over to warp or tor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) tor: "ah yes, this 6.4MB image will take 3 hours to load. good thing I like edging..." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* Apparently you don't know that there are fast tor nodes and, gasp, speeds have improved over the 2 decades tor has been in existence. People are stuck in 2014 thinking it is slower than molasses. I've had this same argument before. Pick a node. Run speed test. If too slow for your needs, pick another. There are hundreds that are set up for high speed, high volume traffic. https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-throughput.html 20-80Mbps is plenty fast. And here's your 6.4Mb image https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2024-10-06&end=2025-01-04&server=public&filesize=5mb permalink fedilink source parent [–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The true ‘90s dial-up experience: Watching your porn load one row of pixels at a time, only to find out it’s censored right as it gets to the good part. Maybe I’ll just play a Flash game instead. Let me go make a sandwich while it loads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (3 children) If I need a Canada connection for free I might switch over to warp or tor. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) tor: "ah yes, this 6.4MB image will take 3 hours to load. good thing I like edging..." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* Apparently you don't know that there are fast tor nodes and, gasp, speeds have improved over the 2 decades tor has been in existence. People are stuck in 2014 thinking it is slower than molasses. I've had this same argument before. Pick a node. Run speed test. If too slow for your needs, pick another. There are hundreds that are set up for high speed, high volume traffic. https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-throughput.html 20-80Mbps is plenty fast. And here's your 6.4Mb image https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2024-10-06&end=2025-01-04&server=public&filesize=5mb permalink fedilink source parent [–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The true ‘90s dial-up experience: Watching your porn load one row of pixels at a time, only to find out it’s censored right as it gets to the good part. Maybe I’ll just play a Flash game instead. Let me go make a sandwich while it loads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) tor: "ah yes, this 6.4MB image will take 3 hours to load. good thing I like edging..." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* Apparently you don't know that there are fast tor nodes and, gasp, speeds have improved over the 2 decades tor has been in existence. People are stuck in 2014 thinking it is slower than molasses. I've had this same argument before. Pick a node. Run speed test. If too slow for your needs, pick another. There are hundreds that are set up for high speed, high volume traffic. https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-throughput.html 20-80Mbps is plenty fast. And here's your 6.4Mb image https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2024-10-06&end=2025-01-04&server=public&filesize=5mb permalink fedilink source parent [–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The true ‘90s dial-up experience: Watching your porn load one row of pixels at a time, only to find out it’s censored right as it gets to the good part. Maybe I’ll just play a Flash game instead. Let me go make a sandwich while it loads. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* Apparently you don't know that there are fast tor nodes and, gasp, speeds have improved over the 2 decades tor has been in existence. People are stuck in 2014 thinking it is slower than molasses. I've had this same argument before. Pick a node. Run speed test. If too slow for your needs, pick another. There are hundreds that are set up for high speed, high volume traffic. https://metrics.torproject.org/onionperf-throughput.html 20-80Mbps is plenty fast. And here's your 6.4Mb image https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html?start=2024-10-06&end=2025-01-04&server=public&filesize=5mb permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* The true ‘90s dial-up experience: Watching your porn load one row of pixels at a time, only to find out it’s censored right as it gets to the good part. Maybe I’ll just play a Flash game instead. Let me go make a sandwich while it loads. permalink fedilink source parent