I presume you mean, so users in individual States or other regions that restrict it can access pornhub
No.
A VPN provides a layer of plausible deniability where PornHub can say 'we don’t know those connections come from [restricted region] so we didn’t know we had to bock them/verify IDs". All they see is connections comming from the VPN exit server location, which is very likely in a more forgiving/less restrictive region.
If PornHub owns the VPN as well, they now know the true location of the user as well as what they’re accessing and will be scrutinized much further about those connections.
it wouldn’t be owned by pornhub. It would be owned by MindGeek, their parent company.
Which, In Americas current legal/political landscape, is more than enough to link them and insist they have an obligation to prevent users accessing MindGeeks own legally restricted content.
They need a significant separation to cover their own asses. Common corporate ownership doesn’t provide that separation.
On a more serious note, tbh, it’s only a matter of time before world governments consider making no log vpns illegal. I can only imagine it pisses off law enforcement that when they show up to vacuum up the data, that they basically get a middle finger from these no logging vpn companies.
I’m very much hoping that this never happens, but I see no reason why various law enforcement agencies won’t eventually bring this to lawmakers.
I presume you mean, so users in individual States or other regions that restrict it can access pornhub
No.
A VPN provides a layer of plausible deniability where PornHub can say 'we don’t know those connections come from [restricted region] so we didn’t know we had to bock them/verify IDs". All they see is connections comming from the VPN exit server location, which is very likely in a more forgiving/less restrictive region.
If PornHub owns the VPN as well, they now know the true location of the user as well as what they’re accessing and will be scrutinized much further about those connections.
All the more reason for them not to log any of their users activity!
And of course it wouldn’t be owned by pornhub. It would be owned by MindGeek, their parent company.
Which, In Americas current legal/political landscape, is more than enough to link them and insist they have an obligation to prevent users accessing MindGeeks own legally restricted content.
They need a significant separation to cover their own asses. Common corporate ownership doesn’t provide that separation.
On a more serious note, tbh, it’s only a matter of time before world governments consider making no log vpns illegal. I can only imagine it pisses off law enforcement that when they show up to vacuum up the data, that they basically get a middle finger from these no logging vpn companies.
I’m very much hoping that this never happens, but I see no reason why various law enforcement agencies won’t eventually bring this to lawmakers.
Not sure how they could block mine as I rolled my own on a Digital Ocean droplet. Anyone know?
digital ocean can log all your connections