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Vpn’s still work for getting round the age checks.
Well the paid one I use still works.
Had a few sites today block me without age verification so opens the VPN and Seattle USA has no age verifications currently.
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That’s only going to work for foreign sites. According to Ofcom I believe they must age check anyone. I’ve been reading an article on the Ofcom site which states UK sites are still responsible even if the customer uses an undetectable VPN.
A VPN won’t get around NE age verification.
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Being old I managed to pass some AI face check IDs so far today. They say that they delete it and don’t store it so seems ok. Some sites are forcing other pay restrictions. X is annoying to be censored. So many different places you have to verify now. This is a pathetic law that won’t do anything to protect who it should be.
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I’m going to buy a decent quality old man latex mask and see how that goes. Do they ask for ID alongside the face check? Ill have to knock up a fake DL too in that case.
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Most of them just check the face then say it’s ok and let you access the site all ok.
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There is an article from MalwareBytes about age restriction:
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There’s a petition too:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
It’s picked up substantial support. I think now some news sites and forums are beginning to apply age verification too and many foreign sites have just chosen to block the UK, it’s affecting a LOT more people than the government said (which we all knew).
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It looks like the vast majority of sites don’t even know about the legislation. As they are mostly based way outside Ofcom jurisdiction, Ofcom only has two courses of action: It either ignores them or blocks them from the UK. I can’t imagine that blocking a huge number of websites from the UK will sit well with the electorate.
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Ofcom released a list of all those non compliant sites lol
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I didn’t think of the third option, to advertise them!
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Have any search engines begun age-verification for adult results in photo and video searches?
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Reddit and discord both used automated procedures using the phone’s camera. Reddit asked for my birthday. Neither required any other ID and both promised not to retain the verification images after confirming my age.
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I don’t use Discord anymore and I’ve never been to Reddit, but I don’t use phone apps or browse the web on my mobile (screen is TOO small), but there’s no way I’m appearing on webcam for a foreign website. Do you trust them not to document their compliance with the rules?
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