Das französische Tiktok-Verbot lässt die VPN-Nutzung in Neukaledonien in die Höhe schnellen, Proton bestätigt einen Anstieg der VPN-Anmeldungen um 2500 % seit dem 15. Mai
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/french-tiktok-ban-makes-vpn-usage-soar-in-new-caledonia
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Damn my lack of foresight, I should’ve expected this much social unrest around the world and started my own VPN company years ago.
It’s too late now, all the cool names are gone.
Ask yourself: where are these VPNs connections headed? Do you use them to access the Chinese network? Can you trust the VPN provider?
If you use a VPN everything between your device and the other side is transmitted encrypted. Meaning all the network hardware in the middle can’t protect you anymore. It can’t sniff in your traffic, true, but that’s only valid if you trust the target network. You skip filtering of common attack pattern in the middle (ISPs do that a lot). That’s not a good idea
Stop using TikTok and switch to other platforms not being held by a state that’s in cyber war with us.
Ok, even if 90% of the people use a VPN and 10% of the people cannot be bothered installing a VPN, that’s 10% less users for TikTok.
Over time, people will get annoyed about forgetting to turn on their VPN every time they want to access TikTok or will just get tired of paying a monthly fee and gradually, the number of TikTok users will decrease.
Once the number of users gets low enough, even the protest managers will move to another platform to follow their members.
TikTok bans are not useless.
can they force the VPNs to black list TikTok links?
Damn, that Tik Tok is truly a drug.
Typical data manipulation. Specifically what they’re saying is that on May 16 they had 2500% of their daily signups prior to it. So if they usually have 1 person a day, they got 25. Big deal. Without knowing the absolute value it’s pretty irrelevant.
It’s amazing the difference the growth of the internet makes.
These uprisings happened in the 90’s. You never heard about it unless you read the Sunday Broadsheets.
I remember reading they had to parachute the foreign legion in, back in the 90’s.
Feels like everyone is just scapegoating TikTok for their domestic problems. My TikTok is just gym bro videos and skits. No political shit. Just how I like it.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité… for some.
Wow, imagine getting a VPN just for instagram or tic tok or facebook….
While an interesting data point, the tiny population of New Caledonia hardly makes for a compelling extension argument.
Yeah, this is bullshit. It doesn’t matter how bad things are, no country has the right to shut down a social media platform for “peacekeeping” or whatever. If it was because it’s Chinese spyware then that’s one thing, but the metropole still has access so that’s not it.
Hopefully the natives can eventually gain the ability to govern themselves. The history of their challenges is pretty interesting.
After decades of exploitation through slave trade, resource extraction, ajd the placement of a penal colony, the island was made a French territory by a vote of ethnic French settlers in 1946. This was before the indigeonous residents were granted the right to vote.
In 1986 the French parliament redistributed 2/3 of the island’s lands to ethnic French settlers who made up only 15% of the population. The natives revolted and only stopped their rebellion because a deal was struck where only settlers and their descendants who had been present prior to 1988 would be allowed to vote on matters regarding the island.
Now afyer 2 referendums (a third was boycotted due to it occurring during covid lockdowns) which were closer to independence each time (with the margin of Remain votes being decided by the pre 1988 settlers). France is going the ol’ China-Hong Kong route and changing on their agreement 38 years later.
It’s good to see that the people fighting to control their own lands and destiny are not allowing French censorship to thwart their efforts.
Yay, voluntarily ingest CCP brainwashing AND show all your traffic to shady VPN services. It’s a win-win for idiots.
TikTok isn’t important or fun enough to even VPN…
France ruling their colonies with an iron fist.
Can’t help but feel the reaction to this would be a lot more negative if it was a country Reddit dislikes.
Lol no shit. People are hooked and don’t give a shit how much of their personal info and data is harvested.
A true ban would remove it from the play store, like India did it. Much harder to bypass (not impossible though)
That’s what addiction looks like. Buy a VPN to use tiktok, exchange BJ for heroin, all similar.
Wow, I haven’t seen an advertorial in a while.
Fuck yeah.
Go ahead.
Proton is a VPN? I thought it was just an anonymous email
Wait til they find out a VPN won’t skirt a TikTok ban because it’s location-based. It’s why TikTok doesn’t work in China even with a vpn.
How exactly is France blocking it?
2024 who anymore watches tiktok?
ppl need to understand why tiktok is banned.
Also the era for new digital privacy laws for Canada & US is long overdue, almost need to form a digital/AI union amongst us and EU.
Whoa, whoa! Slow down there, maestro. There’s a new Caledonia?
If TikTok was stealing data, couldn’t a vpn make it safe anyway? Genuinely asking idk the answer.
Time to invest in some VPN companies
Once enough countries ban it, the content will dry up and the viewers will too in a giant snowball effect. A VPN will buy you access to a dyeing product.
Which use proton if they don’t mine surveillance
The New Scotts are known to be rebels.