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> Do you have any citation for those numbers?

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.

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Doesn't require much understanding to bypass a DNS block or use a VPN.

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.

in fact I would say >90% of -internet users- who are motivated to do so would figure a way to bypass the block. And they don't need to know DNS for that. They find some board that gives them the steps necessary without needing to understand how it all works. Or they know a guy. Why are they motivated? Probably for games, videos, netflix, social media, etc. The walled gardens would motivate them.

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.

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