The VPN panic is only getting started

After the Online Safety Act’s onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer, it didn’t take long for Brits to get around them. Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding‘s photo mode to bypass face scans. But in the end, the simplest solution won out: VPNs.

Virtual private networks have proven remarkably effective at circumventing the UK’s age checks, letting users spoof IP addresses from other countries so that the checks never appear in the first place. The BBC reported a few days after the law came into effect that five of the top 10 free apps on the iOS App Store were VPNs. WindscribeVPN shared data show …

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