VPN Usage Increases in Response to Internet Regulation Laws Like UK Online Safety Act and Australia Age Verification
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Summary
The article discusses how people are using VPNs in response to restrictive internet laws like the UK Online Safety Act and Australia's upcoming age verification laws. The author shares their personal experience of getting a VPN to bypass Australia's new regulations and proposes a startup idea for a smart VPN app that would allow users to route specific websites through different countries based on content restrictions and legal requirements. The app would intelligently tunnel traffic from different domains through appropriate countries to access content that might be blocked or restricted in the user's location.
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But what I'd really love (startup idea!?) is an app that let's you map websites to countries and it handles tunnelling that domain's traffic through the selected country's VPN.
For example, I'd like to view Reddit, YouTube, X, Facebook, Instagram and social media apps from a US IP (to avoid Australia's 'age verification'), dailymail.co.uk from a UK IP (since it's blocked in Thailand), predication markets from a country that allows them, Imgur from a country that allow
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