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Ah gotcha - had missed the bit about iPhones, my bad. This is one of the many reasons I prefer Android (but those come with their own raft of issues). Yeah I'd noticed HSTS errors a few times when going through VPN but not recently.

This is absolutely one of my favourite things to do. There is something so deeply satisfying about turning up somewhere, popping on my blindfold hood and waiting for the tops that someone has arranged to arrive and use my holes. No right of refusal. No right to see their faces. Just holes to be plowed and seeded. I have a top friend who does this - sort of - he tries, but he just isn't very good at it. He seems too detached (won't update his profiles to say what's happening etc) so it's never as satisfying as it has the potential to be. If there are any tops in the UK who are interested in this (even doing it remotely - I will check into a hotel and you can use the apps and sites to send whomever) I'd love to. Or better in person. Hotel rooms, cruises, your home etc are all great places for me.

Look up man in the middle. I assure you that unless you were using a VPN, they could see everything you were browsing.

Here's my own experiences: NordVPN and SurfShark. I believe that these are now owned by the same parent company, but they each have different advantages (and so I actually do subscribe to both, as they're cheap enough on long term, multi-year deals). SufShark supports the Wireguard protocol. This is newer and is usually faster then OpenVPN. It's also considered to be more secure. If you are setting it up as an app, it's definitely no more difficult that any other way of connecting. If you're doing anything fancy and using e.g. a VPN router like OpenWRT then there are extra steps. NordVPN though, provides access to SOCKS proxy servers. This is useful for people who want to download e.g. Torrents, as you can simply add the details into the torrent software and never have to remember to connect to your VPN again. These are both well known, well regarded options. Both claim that they store no logs, but I do not believe this has ever been verified. Next up we have TOR - The Onion Ring. There are a couple of ways to access TOR. First off is with their own web browser, the TOR Browser. It handles the connections for you, etc. Another way is to use the Brave web browser. This has private browsing and private browsing via TOR and it gives a visual confirmation that you are indeed connected via TOR. However, it's important to note that Brave, even via TOR is not guaranteed to be entirely secure as it can suffer from something called DNS leaks - this is where your computer uses the DNS servers from your ISP to work out where to find website addresses. It is also important to remember that you have to remember to open a private window with TOR It's not usually a problem for the vast majority of use cases, but if you want to guarantee highest security, download and use the TOR Browser itself. TOR has another disadvantage in that you cannot set an exit point, so you might end up coming out to the internet in a country that is blocked, whereas with VPN clients you control which one you connet via. Personally, if you can afford a subscription, I would suggest you pay for a well known VPN like SurfShark or NordVPN. They also both have very good tech support. I've also heard good things about ProtonVPN but have no direct experience to share. If cost is an issue, then I would suggest downloading either Brave or the TOR Browser and using them.

Flawed argument with an even more flawed "fix". Trying to hide things wholesale - pretending that they don't exist, only makes them more desirable. Especially to teenagers. Education - whether it's drugs, alcohol, sex, porn, or just how to cross a road safely is the key. This site is full of sluts. Some, like me, actually live it, having made made an educated choice about doing so. Others, are here for the thrill and to talk and to live vicariously, which is fine. Because it's also an educated choice to do so. You want kids to not browse porn? Put the computers and consoles where they can be seen. Simple as that. Give them a dumb phone - it's not cool but it allows contact without the social apps or browsing capabilities. I've worked in IT for a very long time and let me tell you that kids have always, and will always, know more about technology and emerging trends than 99.9% of their parents - you only have to look at this thread to see the lack of comprehension around what is a VPN, how to get one etc etc. And that's simple technology that's been around decades. People give their information away wholesale to Twitter, Facebook, Google etc etc without ever stopping to consider what is that they are actually giving away, because they aren't educated about the consequences and just want "free stuff". Councils changed the flooring around public playgrounds from concrete when I was a kid, to rubberised matting that won't kill you or seriously harm you if you fall from height onto it. Which is great, but you still have to educate your kids that jumping from the top of a slide onto the floor is a really fucking bad idea. Sometimes, they have to find things like that out the hard way. Education isn't always easy, or friendly, or without painful consequences. The bigger problem here is parents abrogating their parental responsibilities. We've had decades of the concept that if you fuck something up, it has to be someone else's fault rather than your own stupidity. And make no mistake about it - none of what the government are doing here, is "for the kids" whatever they may tell you - it's precursors to more and more control over their own citizens. Something that has only escalated since 9/11. Just wait and see - "Oh... kids are using VPN's. You know what would fix this? Banning VPN's? Nope because business use them all the time...wait... oh yes! Let's have a national firewall, akin to the great firewall of China" And *that* will be there purely for censorship and control. And if you don't believe me, look up GCHQ "Smurfs" or Google Edward Snowden for how the US NSA were wholesale snooping on their own citizens. Which, again, wouldn't be so terrible in and of itself if it actually led to lower rates of actual everyday crime, terrorism, child abuse etc etc etc, but it doesn't.

"...Anything that science can devise, science can analyse and synthesise." aka with enough time, effort and/or money, anything can be broken into/cicumvented.

THAT is my perfect top. I have a deep seated desire to be used repeatedly by ever less desirable men, culminating in homeless guys in an alley somewhere

This bill predates the current government. This part of it, forms part of the online safety act 2023. I am no fan of our current government, but the blame for this one lies squarely with their predecessors. Indeed - the constant assault on trying to backdoor encryption goes all the way back to when Theresa May was home secretary. Place your blame where it should fairly sit. This lot have done/are doing a load of crap but this one isn't on them.

Sort of this. I am very clear in all my online personas that it's bare or nothing. And that I expect the cum inside (none of that pulling out busllshit). I find the guys fall broadly into the following groups: They are barebackers and can't wait to fill me They have safe on their profile because - reasons, but fuck raw at every opportunity They fuck raw but have angst (usually married guys and/or "curious" guys - I tend to avoid the latter now as there's almost always some kind of drama) The timewasters just after a wank. And boy, do that bunch seem to be on the ascendancy lately.

Hi all. Travelling to Dusseldorf next week and will be free Mon, Tues and Weds evenings. Any decent clubs/saunas to get to where I can get bred?

Oh you're using certificate pinning? Not many sites I've come across doing that. Nice one.

There are two ways to view this. Currently kids have unfettered access to pornographic/adult oriented websites. This isn't authoritarian in the same ways as you mentioned above. RT had the option to find a mechanism to verify users coming from the UK are over 18. He chose (wisely in my personal opinion - I gave a number of reasons above) not to. Grindr chose to partner with a third party to take photos of your face and use (presumably) 'AI' to determine if you appear over 18 or not with a promise that the facial data would not be kept. Grindr have the funds to do this and there has to be an element of trust to keep using the site. So this isn't quite the same as countries where access to porn - or more specifically gay porn - sites has been blocked. Prove your age and off you trot. Now the flip side is that it's a flawed system. Any and all "nannying" technology is because whatever they can think up can be circumvented. Much more worrying to me - and something I would encourage everyone to take an interest in and be prepared to voice dissent over is the constant attempt by successive home secretaries (going back to at least Theresa May) to backdoor encryption. And sorry folks but this backdoor action ain't fun. Here's a quick and dirty analogy of how encryption works for websites. Top and Bottom want to exchange some secret info. Top has a padlock and a super-complex key to said padlock. Bottom have their own padlock and super-complex key. Top takes the information he wants to send and puts in into a secure box. He then puts his padlock onto it and sends it to Bottom. Bottom receives the box and checks that, visually, it looks ok and untampered with. At this point, Bottom puts his padlock on and sends the box back to Top. The box now has both padlocks on. Top receives the box and again checks to ensure there's no obvious tampering. At this point, Top unlocks his lock and takes it off. He then sends the box back to Bottom. Once again, Bottom checks the box and then takes of his lock. The box is now open and the contents are available to Bottom. This is basically what we refer to as private-public key infrastructure. The padlock is publicly viewable. No one cares. The key though...that's the private, secret, part. Only you have it. There should be no copies. What our lovely gov is suggesting though, is that they, and only they have a key that can open any padlock at any time and no one will ever even be able to tell. HUGE problems: 1 - No fucking way I would trust any government anywhere, ever, to not wholesale open boxes and take a peek 2 - What stops them altering the contents? The recipient would have almost no way of knowing. 3 - And if those two things don't send you cold, this should. No backdoor ever remains in the hands of the *cough* "good guys". Criminals will, with 100% certainty crack it. 100%. Guranteed. I would argue that if they push this through we need a law that says everyone - and I mean everyone - from politicians to banks to the military and police have to use this broken encryption. Watch them come up with excuses why there should be exceptions... no. If it's such a good idea then make it punishable by law not to use it. NO EXCEPTIONS! "But think of the children! You must love protecting paedophiles and terrorist." is the tired argument they roll out. Of course no right minded individual wants to perpetuate child abuse but the sad fact is that most abusers are already known to their victims. Then there's the fact that even when presented with overwhelming evidence (look up Jimmy Saville or the grooming gang issues we've had). The same is true of terrorists etc - they are almost always known about. Almost always already on some kind of watch list. And yet... No this is a sledge hammer to crack a walnut for sure but it's not on the same level as any of the above. <phew>

Blocked fine. Currently using Brave's built in Tor. VPN also works.

Guys take a look back through the posts. I've given you all various options from free to paid for to be able to keep using the site.

Not sure that justified a downvote - especially from a moderator. It was a simple opinion - didn't call anyone out, name anyone etc.