With the predictability that Summer follows Spring and idiots are plentiful in this country, there are now calls from people with all the IQ of a tin of baked beans to ban (or, at least, put age verification) on VPNs.
This statement of complete nonsense has come from the Children’s Commissioner for England.
I mean, do these people not read up on – and familiarise themselves with – the very thing they are talking about regulating? Are these people inherently stupid, or do they just not understand the world they move around in? Do they not have experts they could call upon, people who they could ask ‘How possible is this thing I’m thinking of calling for and what would be the implications of doing it?’
Well, I guess the answer to those questions is, apparently, a resounding ‘no’.
Not only has the OSA caused a surge in VPN use, but it has also caused fake VPN apps that steal your data to flood the market.
So, if anything, the OSA has only made the internet that little bit unsafer.
Yeah, I was reading an article a couple of days ago that essentially said a crew of browser-based VPNs have sprung up which are harvesting data like a bunch of data-harvesting things. I do recommend NordVPN who regularly are placed in the Top 1 by Tom Says and El Reg