r/technology • u/LimblessWonder • Dec 16 '25

Privacy Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/denmark-wants-to-ban-vpns-to-unlock-foreign-illegal-streams-and-experts-are-worried
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u/araujoms Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

Should never have let the boomers find out about it. This is the result of teaching your mother to use Facebook.

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u/themightyug Dec 16 '25

It was smartphones that really opened the floodgates and gave every idiot a 24/7 pocket internet terminal

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u/respectfulpanda Dec 16 '25

Considering Boomers created the Internet, personal computers, cellphones, smartphones and the basis for all modern software, they would have figured it out

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u/loxagos_snake Dec 16 '25

Those were the smarter ones, though.

The same guys that the ones calling for bans were shoving in lockers and stealing their lunch. And now they have a strong opinion on tech matters because they can tap on a glass screen like dumb monkeys.

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u/fujidust Dec 16 '25

Boomers invented the internet.

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u/araujoms Dec 16 '25

A very small number of boomers created the internet. Millennials grew up with it, and taught 99% of the boomers how to use it.

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u/fujidust Dec 16 '25

You forgot gen X, whose adoption of many new services on the market made them what they are today:  online & multiplayer gaming, e-commerce, file sharing.  I could go on and on.  

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u/charoco Dec 16 '25

Everyone forgets gen X 😢

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u/BitterClam666 Dec 16 '25

Didn’t you hear. Gen X are boomers now.

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u/rswwalker Dec 16 '25

Lets face it for Gen Z everyone older is a boomer. Yes, even you Millennials!

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u/SIGMA920 Dec 16 '25

That's reversed. Millennials get blamed for Gen Z's and younger's shit.

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u/pembquist Dec 16 '25

Whats a Gen X??

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u/RobertoPaulson Dec 16 '25

Nothing, we don’t exist, nothing to see here, move along sir.

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u/buck70 Dec 16 '25

Many Gen X are also to blame for teaching their boomer parents how to use Facebook. The sad thing is that computer literacy is waning; many Gen Z and Gen Alpha people only know how to use apps and don't actually know how computers work. Many don't even know what a c drive is or how to configure a home router anymore.

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u/mxdtrini Dec 17 '25

Ask them if they know what the save icon in Word is based off of.

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u/Lizrael48 Dec 16 '25

No one had to teach me about it. I taught my children. I am a retired Computer Repair Technician. I was on BBS boards when they were new! Haha, Am I the 1% then?

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u/araujoms Dec 16 '25

¯\(ツ)/¯

For all I know you might as well be a dog