a preston<p>EDIT - See <span class="h-card"><a href="https://todon.eu/@crash_course" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>crash_course</span></a></span> 's posts below for some more about how VPNs do and do not protect you!</p><p>In recent days, Russia has slowed and blocked YouTube, Turkiye has blocked Instagram (?), and Israel's block of Al-Jazeera continues. <br>Of course there are many other longstanding blocks in many other places. </p><p>For those of you new to the VPN scene, or perhaps those of you who know about VPNs but can't afford one, may I recommend the donation-based VPN run by the anarchist tech-collective riseup.net? <br><a href="https://riseup.net/en/vpn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">riseup.net/en/vpn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It works well, in my experience. (If someone in <a href="https://fediphilosophy.org/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> and <a href="https://fediphilosophy.org/tags/Turkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkiye</span></a> could confirm this is effective in their countries as well, that would be helpful :)). <br>If you can't afford to donate, don't worry, its free! If you can, please donate if you use it!</p><p>I have no affiliation with Rise Up, I just think its cool to support collectives like this when possible, and I think most haven't heard of them because they obviously have no ability to advertise. </p><p><a href="https://fediphilosophy.org/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediphilosophy.org/tags/internetcensorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internetcensorship</span></a></p>