highly flammable by Rachel Richardson

highly flammable by Rachel Richardson

It's a great time to be a VPN

The age-controlled internet is here and U.K. teens aren't having any of it

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Rachel Richardson
Aug 01, 2025
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Britain has gone VPN crazy. Or more specifically British teens are crazy for VPNs.

A VPN is a tool which creates a virtual private network that hides a user’s online identity and location, and they now dominate Apple’s U.K. app chart…

Entertainment apps haven’t been displaced because Gen A and Z are suddenly obsessed with identity theft. It’s because the U.K. government is trying to protect under 18s from harmful online content, but teens are saying ‘nice try old people we’ll hack our way through the backdoor’.

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