Bypass geo restrictions to access Pornhub without using any VPN

And totally for free!

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June 05^th, 2025





[FUQ about this page]

The proxy strikes back!

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In order to add the appropriate filters (reminder: this is NOT an open proxy), click on the symbol, next to Proxy by Patterns. Here is the different rules (you may copy-paste them from this webpage into the configuration):

*://*.theraphit.com/*
*://*.pornhub.com/*
*://*.youporn.com/*
*://*.redtube.com/*

The filter rule matching my own website will help you to test if everything is working fine, see later.

Depending on how Pornhub & co. is banned in your area, you might need to add also their CDN domains to the filters, in order to force all video traffic through the proxy:

*://*.phncdn.com/*
*://*.rdtcdn.com/*
*://*.ypncdn.com/*

When you are finished with the configuration, click Save. Then restart your browser, and open again the FoxyProxy widget, to click on Proxy by Patterns.

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There's a page on my website TheRaphit.com which displays visitors' IP address: the one telling about the 2025 return of the site, and to be more specific, at the bottom of the page. If your FoxyProxy configuration is good, you should now see:

aylo-proxy.ssn.theraphit.com

To check if there is some outage or scheduled maintenance on the proxy, I suggest you disable (or delete) the rule that calls the proxy to browse my website - just in case you need to access this page to check if there's known issues with the service.

You may now cancel your VPN subscription. :D

How this thing is even working? Where is that proxy, I mean physically?

The server is located in Switzerland, a country known for its online freedom.

For instance, it's not against the law in Switzerland to download and share copyrighted content on the Internet, as long as you don't ask for money. Swiss government doesn't really care about what people are doing (or not doing) online for their private needs.

Besides this, for the proxy I picked an IP address belonging to a residential ISP block, meaning my proxy users are indistinguishable from someone at home in Switzerland browsing the Internet - which most (if not all) VPN services cannot achieve.

Why are you doing this? Is there some kind of an hidden purpose?

Mostly, to have fun! Setting up the servers, writing the webpage, configuring the network... And of course I love to ridiculize those braindead MPs who spend days to write and vote stupid laws.

There isn't any hidden purpose, this page has nothing to sell, nor my website has. I'm not affiliated with Aylo or any other company in the porn industry. Their content sucks (not only literally), there's no free hentai wallpapers to download!

Is this a crusade against VPN services?

Kind of, perhaps. :-)

VPN services are everywhere, from YouTube to in-app advertisements, on all platforms. But although flooding us with their commercials 24 hours a day, they are unable to achieve what they claim: streaming platforms such as Netflix filter VPN servers, to prevent people who want to bypass their local copyright restrictions to actually being able to do so.

And now, the worst part: they claim they protect your online privacy, but they don't. Yes, you're probably anonymous to webmasters such as me as long as you browse mainstream websites. But when you choose to engage in the other ways on the Internet, you are pretty sure to risk being reported to the authorities.

VPN services are registered companies you pay for, they hold some critical data about you: at least your credit card number, paypal account or e-mail address. All that information makes you NOT anonymous, and they don't mind leaking it.

How it's different with your proxy?

As you've read earlier, there's no need for a username or password to access the proxy. It's also configured to keep no record of any IP address that access it!

Also, the server is not located in a well-known datacenter or hosted by some swiss-subsidiary of a huge Internet company - which makes it almost impossible for any authority to spy directly on it. Or course that can always be done at my ISP, but that's unlikely to happen here.

And foreign (non-swiss) governments? How they might react when they learn what you are doing?

Honestly, if they want to annoy a random (that's me) with that, they're just proving they are complete idiots losing their time on futile endeavors.

In Europe, we pay taxes everyday at anytime. LOTS of. More that 20 % on everything we buy including food, 35 % (or more) on our wages, and even more when running a company. With all that we spend, governments should be at our service. And what do they do instead? Trying always harder to find new ways to annoy us and restrict our freedom.

They know that noone will mourne the porn industry when it's dead... Should you want to fully control and regulate what people are doing online, that's the easiest path to start with. What's next? Social media because they are as "dangerous" as porn to minors? And then after? Streaming? Online newspapers?

I'm not trustful... There must be another way!

Yes, the easiest and most effortless way for you is to use the Tor network. As you would do in order to access the so-called Darknet. Just download the Tor Browser which will connect to that network, without any need for you to do anything else!

That's your best privacy-preserving option, for sure! Better than my proxy, miles & miles ahead of any VPN service.

However, the Tor network is quite crowded, and known to be slow.

Speaking of that, What about the bandwidth? Can your proxy server hold that much video traffic?

As you can imagine, it's not on my plans to advertise for this service, as VPN companies do!

The number of users should stay quite low, and even if some of them start to watch porn every hour of the day, there's enough bandwith for everyone! Don't worry for that. :-)