Age verification on Adult Websites from 25th July

[Shooter McGavin]

Effective tomorrow under the Online Safety Act, website providers have to verify user age via ID.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq7ye3q2zwo.a...

I'm intrigued as to how people feel about this. OFCOM says 14 million people use such sites.

Would you trust them to protect your data from a hack? I wouldn't.

I wonder if it will kickstart a resurgence in the old jazz mag market and the comeback of 'hedge p()rn'? A bit like the vinyl revival, only with readers' wives!

[BikeBikeBIke]

Forcing millions of people to give bank details or personal info to sketchy websites. Insane.

I'm going back to the MandS underwear catalog.

[Sheetmaself]

Oooh fancy, Kays for me!

[Getragdogleg]

I have been told that the ID checks on Reddit are being bypassed with pictures of Kier Starmer that have been printed out.

Nice to see a badly thought out Government directive has been defeated before its even really got going.

[bad company]

The VPN companies will love it.

[130R]

bad company said:

The VPN companies will love it.

Which every kid knows how to use while clueless boomers hand over their personal data to porn sites

[Monsterlime]

130R said:

bad company said:

The VPN companies will love it.

Which every kid knows how to use while clueless boomers hand over their personal data to porn sites

Indeed, this is not only daft, but huge overreach by the Government. It is unfortunately clear that they truly do not understand how technology works or who uses it.

The 'think of the children' brigade will be along soon to defend this and the rest of the idiotic Online Safety Act.

[MDMetal]

Those that don't know how to use VPN's soon will. So the outcome of this is now a large % of the populace will be using VPN's constantly no doubt disguising more serious issues (I assume a number of people up to no good are in fact to stupid to use VPN's)

It's a bit like locking the garden gate and pretending nobody will climb the half height fence right next to the gate. "As long as people only try to gain access through legal means we'll keep them out!"

[Rufus Stone]

Will this cover Tractors Weekly?

[s p a c e m a n]

Meh, if you're not using stremio you're doing it wrong.

[Bluevanman]

Just use Opera,it has 1 click VPN button

[otolith]

Lots of negative unintended consequences, but will definitely achieve the only thing it was ever meant to achieve.

No, not keeping the kids from accessing grot. That was never going to happen. Pretending to be doing something about it. Job done.

[Oliver Hardy]

bad company said:

The VPN companies will love it.

But haven't the US courts given the go ahead for similar in the USA and 21 states so far including Texas, Florida, California, Ohio passed laws on age verification. The EU have Digital Services Act (DSA) which I think requires age verification too

Is the answer to move the servers to countries with more liberal laws, Russia might be willing to facilitate them

[otolith]

Oliver Hardy said:

bad company said:

The VPN companies will love it.

But haven't the US courts given the go ahead for similar in the USA and 21 states so far including Texas, Florida, California, Ohio passed laws on age verification. The EU have Digital Services Act (DSA) which I think requires age verification too

Is the answer to move the servers to countries with more liberal laws, Russia might be willing to facilitate them

The issue is not the location of the servers, it is the perceived location of the users. A VPN obscures the IP geolocation of the user. So European pron-browsers are not going to be asked to verify their identity, only those who appear to be browsing from the UK.

[Bathroom_Security]

Really wanted to avoid using a VPN, the thought of proxying data, encrypted or not, via a company is about as appealing as handing over my ID to these age verification sites.

I assume there will be some sort of login token or SSO option available like 'Login with Google' from these ID sites.

Going to be interesting to see how people adapt assuming people won't want to pay for a VPN service.

[130R]

Monsterlime said:

130R said:

bad company said:

The VPN companies will love it.

Which every kid knows how to use while clueless boomers hand over their personal data to porn sites

Indeed, this is not only daft, but huge overreach by the Government. It is unfortunately clear that they truly do not understand how technology works or who uses it.

The 'think of the children' brigade will be along soon to defend this and the rest of the idiotic Online Safety Act.

Even more funny is the regulators advice to parents, "Concerned parents, it said, should block or control VPN usage". Err, can't they just do that with porn sites instead then we don't need any of this idiocy in the first place ..

[Radec]

Shares in lotion and tissues about to take a hit

[s1962a]

Rufus Stone said:

Will this cover Tractors Weekly?

Clarkson, is that you?

[Frankthered]

Rufus Stone said:

Will this cover Tractors Weekly?

Not sure, do you like to plough the soil?

[Scabutz]

So big viewing and wk session tonight before we are shut out then is it?