For 99.8% of internet users, DNS based blocking is a hard stop (for them).
For the remaining 0.2% who know how things work, they are a brief bump in the road to getting to the site they want to pull up.
For the remaining 0.2% who know how things work, they are a brief bump in the road to getting to the site they want to pull up.
When dns blocks were in Turkey using non isp servers was common enough for it to be graffitied
https://www.mic.com/articles/85987/turkish-protesters-are-sp...
It is not in Germany.
Therefore, more people in Turkey would know about measures to circumvent it than in Germany.
You need to spend more time with the normies. 99.8% is probably an exaggeration, but if so, not by much. It's easy to forget just how little the average person knows, or wants to know, about how technology works, or their ability to change it to their advantage.
The vast majority of people not only do not understand DNS, they couldn't tell you with any specificity what a domain or IP address even are, and they're afraid of doing anything which might break their computer in a way they don't understand enough to fix.
Easily two thirds of FiFo (Fly In | Fly Out) mine workers in this state, the full on beer swigging head butting rail labourers et al have a rough understanding of the problem and have traded a carton or three with a mate of mate to fix it on their phone | home network so they can get all the p0rn and free movies they can watch on time off.
Real understanding of layered networking protocols from fibre and wire upwards is rare; bypassing DNS blocks is common as muck even sans that fancy CISCO certification.
Thing is here, only a minority are going to be "into" the pirate site scene, so way less are motivated in the first place. And a lot of them probably have a perfectly fine way to get their stuff from non-blocked pirate sites.
When I look at my grandma use the internet, she knows very little about it, but if she's motivated to do something with tech she always seems to figure out a way.
Germans are not using torrent not because they don't have the knowledge but because they will get sued unless they take other anonymization measures that cost money and slow down speed so why not just pay for Netflix. In developing countries enforcement is not so great that's all
Stuff they actually do day to day. Scroll social media, use messaging apps, watch Netflix, Youtube, Twitch etc, in the older generations (millennial and up) also email and MS Office.