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After Pornhub was blocked in France, the number of downloads of VPN services increased sharply
In France, the demand for VPN services has increased sharply after the largest porn sites Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn temporarily blocked access to their content in the country. Politico writes about this.
According to the publication, within half an hour after the sites were turned off, the ProtonVPN VPN service reported a 1000% increase in registrations. Representatives of the service note that such a surge was not observed even at the time of the attempt to ban TikTok in the United States.
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NordVPN sees a 170% increase in usage of its product. “We see similar spikes wherever digital freedoms are threatened or content is censored,” a company spokesperson said.
In turn, analytics portal Top10VPN reported that overall use of VPN services in France has jumped 334% compared to the average over the past 28 days.
In 2024, France became the second largest source of traffic for Pornhub after the United States, the publication writes, citing data from the company itself.
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The day before, June 4, the company Aylo Freesites, which owns all three portals, announced a temporary restriction of access to adult sites in France. Thus, they responded to the law on a system for determining the age of users using a bank card or documents. The deadline for implementing this rule is June 7.
Representatives of Aylo Freesites noted that the company is not against age verification measures, but they believe that it should be carried out at the device level. The company also said that the measures proposed by the French authorities jeopardize the privacy of users of porn sites.
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