When circumvention is more popular than compliance

From my read, I don't see this article making the case that UK is Poised to Ban VPNs. At least not directly.

As of July 25th, internet users in the United Kingdom are being asked to prove their age before accessing many of their favourite apps and websites.

Reddit, for example, redirects the user to a 3rd party data broker service, where they are asked to provide biometric face scans, official identity documents, or a similar measure.

Do you comply with these new requirements, or just find something else to do with your time?

Well, no, there's a third option of course: circumvention [VPN].

Not much directly. Indirectly: Reddit has been ramping up VPN bans for some time. It's pretty thorough from what I see.

We may wind still up in the same unwanted space (Gov's influence over browsing) but thru different enforcement measures.

> Firefox Container Tabs are a great way to selectively route certain websites over a VPN.

TIL. Guess I’ll need to explore that cause I’m not really up for this send passport and face scan to random companies bullshit

China can’t even do it successfully, so why does the UK think they can?

Like China.

And of course the ban does not work even in China.

It's time for everyone to go dark.

I'm already abandoning all my accounts that have my name.

I wonder who's more authoritarian these days, UK, Russia or China when it comes to free speech. Actually Konstantin Kisin wondered that years ago already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s

hmm: https://www.foxnews.com/world/cs-lewis-tolkien-orwell-among-...

Original title was "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs" but the article's title has changed and the author commented:

Edit: I've changed the title of this post from its original and slightly more inflamatory "The UK is Poised to Ban VPNs", because it seems to be getting popular and I don't want to see a million people arguing over it.

[stub for offtopicness]