{"id":16608,"date":"2025-07-28T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1414660"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:42:26","slug":"proton-vpn-rises-to-top-uk-app-charts-as-porn-age-checks-kick-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16608","title":{"rendered":"Proton VPN rises to top UK app charts as porn age checks kick in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2025%2F07%2FUntitled-design-3-2.jpg&#038;signature=a721c4ef2a052708fb988bbec6c30e45\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>Proton VPN has become the UK\u2019s most downloaded free app, as Britons rush to bypass a new law requiring users to verify their age before accessing websites hosting adult content.\u00a0 Proton VPN reported a staggering 1,400% surge in UK sign-ups almost immediately after the Online Safety Act came into effect. It is now Britain\u2019s most downloaded free app, overtaking ChatGPT, according to Apple\u2019s App Store rankings. The Switzerland-based virtual private network (VPN) said in a post on X that the surge in interest has been \u201csustained.\u201d This contrasts with recent short-term spikes, such as when people in France temporarily lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/proton-vpn-uk-top-app-age-verification?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/proton-vpn-uk-top-app-age-verification\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proton VPN has become the UK\u2019s most downloaded free app, as Britons rush to bypass a new law requiring users to verify their age before accessing websites hosting adult content.\u00a0 Proton VPN&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}