VPN's, browsers and age verification

[m100]

In order of easiness:

1. Install Tor browser on your machine.



when you start it up it will say loading relay information, that is normal. When the home page appears go to the top right corner and the three horizontal bars 'menu', click, down to add ons, click, search for adblock plus, click install.

you are now good to go.

2. Install Opera Browser



I'm having to do this one from memory as I uninstalled opera as the vpn was slow.

Opera comes with a built in ad blocker (it may need to be enabled in settings, I can't remember) and a free, built in VPN. You will need to find the 'settings' option once downloaded and installed and enable the VPN option.

Once that is done away you go but your download speed through it will be reduced.

Option 3

Requires most work but is the most effective

Install firefox browser



once installed, go to add ons, located top right, three horizontal bars, click, add ons, click, you will see a box 'search more extensions', type adblock or ublock, install the defence of your choice.

go to 'find more extensions' again and type free vpn you will get a long list. The number of stars and the number of users is a good starting ground but doesn't tell the whole story. Most of them have daily or monthly downloading limits but there is nothing to stop you from using multiple you just need to be clever and switch them around by enabling/disabling in the (horizontal bars) menu/add ons.

I use the following ones; setupvpn, hoxxvpn and purevpn. The first two are limited per day (and yes it is enforced), pure vpn is unlimited BUT (more later).

As I remember setup and hoxx both require registration, email verification as usual etc, when you install firefox will pop up some info click ok/allow. I would recommend choosing one of these two first before branching out.

Once installed you will see an icon in the toolbar, set ups is a little grey squiggle, hoxx is like a cube, click on either and you will get a list of countries to connect through.

The simple rule seems to be to stick to your rough geographical area to achieve best speeds eg norther europe, southern europe, americans swap to canada or go westwards. Click your chosen country, click connect, may take a couple of seconds and then you're good to go.

THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART.

When you have finished, go back to menu, go to add ons and disable the option you were using. (You are not deleting it just disabling). Now you can if you want install another vpn provider as above. Windscribe is also ok by the way but it is slow.

Right, special notes if you decide to go down the pure vpn installation route. Install it like any other but you only get a choice of three free countries to live in holland, sweden, romania. I usually go through holland as there's seem the quickest. YOU MUST MUST MUST MUST enable and disable this provider in the menu as and when you want to use it. But it's speeds are quick and it has no download limits so if you spend hours on 'certain' sites this is the one for you.

If you think anything you have installed is not for you, go to the menu, click add ons, look for it in the list of installed add ons and delete. Done.

You are no doubt thinking that's all very good but how do i know it's working. Two ways to check if you are in the UK

Try to go to zippyshare.com if you can get there (don't use germany as an isp address though) then whatever method you have chosen has placed you outside of the UK.

Go to pornhub, on the front page it will say someting about viewing it in english do you want to change to whatever country your browser is telling them it is now in.

[Mr Jones]

Hi m100

Much appreciated for this info. I'm going to have a go over the next few days.

J.

[sparky]

M100,

All helpful information.

A while ago I found Adblock Plus had become resource heavy so swapped to Ublock Origin.

I have been using Opera and Firefox with various VPN addons for a couple of years to avoid ( I trust ) all the websites I visit being logged by my ISP as required under the ' Snoopers Charter ' introduced by Mrs May when Home Secretary.

What is essential to be aware of is how the VPN's log and use your data.
A perfect VPN will log nothing so total anonymity but that only applies to some of the paid services.

For the free services read here



and



Further the encryption of the free VPN's is generally weak so beware of passing any security or critical data while using them.

[m100]

Cheers Sparky. I read those links. As I said in the original post I wasn't happy with Opera even as a stand alone browser to be honest, I think it lasted less than a day on my machine. Of the others that get a mention Hoxx seems not be working for me recently, Pure vpn which i use most often seems to come out ok . Hotspot shield was another one that bit the dust very quickly off my machine as it was too slow, cyberghost i couldn't get on with at all and although i have their anti-virus i wouldn't touch avgs vpn with someone else's barge pole. I gave the proton vpn a go but again i think it was slow I might give it another go. I'd never recommend personal info being put into any of them, even email addresses. There are plenty of fake emails if you need to register for something (10minutemail, mailsac etc).

The more people who contribute to this thread the better it will be we've got two months to prepare and a website - zippyshare - to practice on in a way.

[NGershon]

Better to pay for vpn access.

Anyone using the free vpn services should learn how to set up multiple browser profiles in Opera/Firefox/etc and should separate their porn browsing from their regular browsing, especially anything that might identify them.

Because when you'll find out that that free vpn service has been logging everything you've done and that it knows who you are, then that information has already been sold multiple times.

[Mulletman]

Is anyone buying the 12 digit porn pass from paypoint shops at ?4.99?

[Mr Jones]

Thanks for the further useful info.

I don't want to hijack this thread but if I create one in Off Topics no-one will see it let alone anyone that knows anything about pcs. So if anyone sees thiis can have a looksy in the Off Topis re my hardrive problem. TIA.

[sparky]

My theoretical 36 Mb/s fibre to the box, copper to the house broadband is usually around 23 Mb/s.
It is pointless paying for 72Mb/s as in reality I would get little or no speed increase. Having said that 23Mb/s is fine and a big step up from basic broadband that was 5-6 Mb/s.

I don't find Opera noticeably slower than Firefox.

Running a speed test from
http://speedtest.btwholesale.com
shows only a slightly slower speed with the VPN on than without.

As Firefox addons Hoxx and SetupVPN have mostly been working recently.
Both have a daily limit seemingly 1.5 or 2GB. Once this is exceeded you are out for 24 hours.

TouchVPN however doesn't have a daily limit and a reasonable speed. Again useless for privacy and signing in to any account or website with a username and password you care about but seems fine to hide behind for online hosting sites, forums etc.

I have tried Hola VPN and Browsec VPN as Firefox addons but had issues with both.