u/Chance_Drink3100

honestly I’m not even surprised anymore. The other day I clicked on a site and suddenly it wanted me to verify my age with personal info before letting me continue. Bro I’m sorry but there’s no way I’m handing over IDs or sensitive data to random websites that probably get breached every other month so yeah i downloaded a VPN too. Not even for anything shady. I literally just wanted to browse normally without feeling like I’m applying for a passport every time I open the internet lol. What’s funny is these laws were supposed to stop people from bypassing restrictions, but now everybody’s learning how VPNs work because of it. Massive backfire ngl. Lowkey feels like we’re entering that “show ID before entering every website” era and I hate it here. Anyone else suddenly using VPNs way more because of all this age check stuff?

So apparently the EU launched this new age verification system to “protect minors online,” but people quickly figured out you can literally bypass it with a VPN. Now there’s talk about tighter VPN regulations and honestly this feels kinda wild. I travel a lot for work and public Wi-Fi is straight up sus sometimes. VPN is basically the only thing keeping my accounts from getting yoinked at airports and cafés. What’s annoying is that governments keep treating VPNs like they’re only used for bypassing restrictions, when a lot of normal people use them for privacy, security, streaming, remote work, etc. Imagine paying for a legit VPN subscription then suddenly needing ID verification just to use it That kinda defeats the whole privacy point ngl. Anybody else think this is getting outta hand or am I trippin’?