>Wild guess: US?

Hungary.

My theory is that it was installed to curb filesharing and then it snowballed into generic blocking of various things on the university network.

>intellectual freedom to explore and tinker you'd want to flourish at a university.

Ah that sounds sweet. Reminds me of the anecdotes I read from the pioneer age of computing that people tell here sometimes. Well, the place I studied at was nothing like that. >_>

Eh, if you care about privacy you shouldn't be browsing porn without a VPN or tunnel to a trusted server, "intellectual freedom" or not

In theory, if the tls connection wasn't tampered with, i.e the cert issuer is a party you trust, it shouldn't be a problem apart from the dns query.

I was referring to residential IPs.

Yep, by far that was the biggest PiA because I was hosting a lot of things at home.