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After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes
That was quick.
The adult site reportedly exited its second-biggest market because of a new French age-verification law that has a June 7 compliance deadline, per Mashable's Anna Iovine. A Proton spokesperson tells Mashable that when it built its VPN "to help people in authoritarian countries with online censorship, an access gateway for porn was obviously not what we had in mind." Such laws are intended to restrict children's access to adult content (and in some cases social media), but experts have flagged free speech and privacy concerns.
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