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Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help (www.techradar.com)
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 98 points 3 days ago (2 children)

For the first time, this also means that using a virtual private network (VPN) won't bypass these restrictions, as long as the server is based in the UK.

So a VPN will help? lol.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 3 days ago

Impossible. The only way around it would be to pretend to be in literally any other country than the UK, and no one would you lie in the Internet! /s