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Have you BEEN on the modern internet already? Half the big websites already block or severly limit VPNs.
On 4chan you can't post. On reddit you can't even read without an account - and inb4 >reddit, it still shows up often in search results, but blocking even read access is ridiculous. Plenty of sites spam you with captchas at every corner rather than outright blocking, but that's only one step away, because I'm pretty sure users who have to solve a captcha every 30 seconds probably aren't very valuable in terms of engagement, revenue etc.
>If the UK government goes to websites and says, "Oi m8 you need to block vpn users too" then they'll be unable to distinguish between UK vpn users and non-UK vpn users, which puts them in a challenging legal position.
The government won't say anything, the websites are doing it all themselves, globally, with glee.
The only way this will change is if VPNs become the standard way for significant demographics to access the internet, and then maybe, just maybe, websites might have to stop and think "UK users were like 15-20% of my traffic, so I want to block them forever?". But the reality is that even that won't happen, because the tens of millions of normies will mostly just sign in, make an account, submit their ID, etc., whatever it takes for the path of least resistance. VPNs might be moderately popular but they'll only ever represent a tiny fraction of total internet traffic from any one country. So the calculus will become "do I want to block 5% of 15% of my previous traffic? and have to deal with spammers, ban-evaders and the like taking advantage?" and it becomes much, much easier to just block them, take the <1% traffic hit, and be done with it.
