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> As of Monday morning, half of the top ten free apps in Apple's app download charts in the UK appeared to be for VPN services.

> Proton VPN, an app offered by Swiss privacy tech firm Proton, told the BBC it had seen a 1800% spike in UK daily sign-ups over the weekend after age check rules took effect on Friday.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o

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Marketing network security products is usually hard. Not any more. The practical effect of these so-called protection laws is to break shit across the entire Internet.

Last I checked, many of the top free VPNs on the App Store were dodgy no-name ones that probably funnel traffic through Russia. Well done UK government you saved the children.

The dodgy ones actually usually use you as an exit node for other users traffic as well as selling your connection commercially as a residential proxy

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