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Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by lelandfe on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:25PM (#39955723)
Back in my day, it was about obscure web proxies. I remember one that was called something like abelincolnfacts.com, which looked like a blog about Lincoln. But clicking an icon of his face in the top right revealed a web proxy interface to browse the web unfettered.
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Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by doubled112 on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:07PM (#39957532)
Bess can't go there.
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Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by Shawnj2 on Saturday April 06, 2024 @10:09PM (#39957546)
A super common one from my time is to use google translate’s web translation feature as a proxy since google translate is almost never blocked
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Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by joshstrange on Sunday April 07, 2024 @12:40PM (#39961901)
Yep, that was a popular one. Later in high school I had a shared hosting account with shell access so I could spin up a proxy with something like

    ssh -NL 8080:localhost:8080 user@host
Then point the browser to use that as a socks proxy.
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