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They've been pretty good at banning things at the provider level. Sites in the UK seemingly get banned by everyone as soon as the government requests it. Similar in Germany, and they go out of their way to analyze most or enough torrent data going through I believe all ISPs to detect what you pirate. Doing the same for detecting encryption doesn't seem farfetched.

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> Sites in the UK seemingly get banned by everyone as soon as the government requests it

I live in the UK this is not correct, these are voluntary agreements by ISP's and you can opt out of the default filtering.

I think the only time something has been blocked here it was due to a Court Order: https://www.virginmedia.com/help/list-of-court-orders

I mean that's still a fair amount of sites. I recognize and have used plenty of those.

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