Whether you think porn sites are beneficial to society or not, the UK porn block is going to cause far more damage than benefit to the UK community which we’ll discuss below, followed by a solution that will let you use porn sites in the UK in 2019 without having to verify your identity.
The porn block was designed to prevent children and teens from accessing porn sites, yet instead, it’s going to result in adults giving away their identity which will result in a link between who someone is and what someone watches, how long they watch it, and when they watch it.
In a world where the biggest companies on the planet have leaks.
From a privacy point of view, this is a vast problem that can and will eventually ruin careers, relationships, and friendships.
Currently, while what one views on a porn site can be collected as data, that data is not directly linked to anyone though. Now it will be.
To make the problem even worse, the UK government is letting porn sites decide on the system they implement, with one of the systems being called MindGeek and belonging to the same people that own some of the most popular porn sites on the planet. That sounds like data collection.
And then there’s the issue of the effectiveness of that system in the first place. No major country without censorship has a porn block. That makes it ridiculously easy to use porn sites in the UK in 2019 without having to verify your identity which we will talk about below.
All you need is a VPN.
If you want to unblock platforms like Hulu or DAZN in the UK, then things get slightly complicated. When it comes to using porn sites in the UK without having to verify your identity, all it takes is connecting to a country which does not have a porn block whether that is Ireland, France, Sweden, or any other region near to the UK.
The question for some will be if a VPN is worth getting just to use porn sites in the UK without having to verify your identity, and for that, we will say that the alternatives are to either not use porn sites at all, or to use a VPN. Unless you are okay with sharing your identity on a porn site every single time you access a different porn site, increasing the risk of your information leaking. That’s your choice.
If we were you, we’d look at it from the perspective of entertainment and overall internet use. Do you already watch Netflix? Did you know that Ireland has more of the American Netflix content than the UK does? The UK only has 38.20% of American Netflix shows and 34.53% of American Netflix movies. That’s 1/3 of what you could have, for the same price. With PrivateVPN you can connect to American Netflix, Irish Netflix, and many more, with a press of a button, with PrivateVPN supporting the most Netflix regions on the market.
We also support the likes of Hulu, DAZN, HBO and pretty much all the entertainment platforms that you would like to use in the UK but can’t due to location limits.
If you are debating over whether a VPN service is worth getting to use porn sites in the UK or whether you should just take a risk and verify your identity, ultimately that’s up to you. But if you love entertainment, a VPN service depending on which you get is like a 2 in 1, 3 in 1, 4 in 1, or 5 in 1 depending on how many services you seek to unblock and depending on how many services the service you use can unblock.
And if you ever do torrenting or use public Wi-Fi, VPN services also encrypt everything you do on the internet allowing for full privacy. Something to perhaps think about. We wrote some posts about torrenting on our blog in the past.
When it comes to unblocking sites, it doesn’t get easier than unblocking porn sites in the UK. The UK government didn’t think it through, and the system will cause more damage than benefit, and even without that, it’s one of the easiest systems to break due to VPN services being around and nobody else going for a porn block.
Written by Michael Smolski.