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@nixCraft vpn is generally useless but for people who live in mainland china, vpn is hardly a scam.

@pap1rus @nixCraft And india also bans some things I believe?. The middle east many if not all countries like to ban all pr0n sites (I think Singapore too?), LGBT information, etc. Then there is Russia, Belarus, Eritrea, Egypt, and many many more. The list is a LOT longer then "china".

wouldn´t surprise me if more then 50% of the world population needs a VPN to check at least some things (LGBT stuff, pr0n, or political stuff, news, all depends on the country), and lets not forget, that many

@pap1rus @nixCraft people live outside of their og country as well and might want to communicate with home.

Its way more then China....

I suspect OP lives in a country with unfiltered internet like the EU (like me) or Japan or (though God knows for how long with anti LGBT propaganda laws in Florida and Texas etc) the US, and doesnt know any people from there...

@UkeBLCatboy @pap1rus @nixCraft In the US some individual states have been blocked by porn sites because of their laws. I suspect this means VPNs are on the rise here. Iran and Russia need VPNs as well as many other censored countries.

@skry @pap1rus @nixCraft Yeah, thats why I mentioned the US.

I am in the EU, which seems about the only place (together with Japan) where everything is uncensored and it won't change anytime soon.