seems like the uk isnt the only one trying to implement "robust age verification"

[traplover19]

so Europe is giving platforms 12 months to do the same so then the obvious question is what's going to happen to this site for European users like me?

 

[rk-47]

This site seems fine for UK users rn but sites like r34 and other standard adult sites are fully blocked

 

[anne O'nymous]

so Europe is giving platforms 12 months to do the same [...]

The EU just started to experiment in order to find the best (in their eyes) compromise between what they want and what website can do. So, I doubt that they are already giving a delay before which they'll starts to enforce the age control.

 

[tretch95]

You'll do what people in countries like Iran or Russia are doing:

Disappear from the public internet by using VPNs, Telegram, TOR instead of the controlled channels.

 

[Hirosuki]

U.K user here.
There are already a large number of sites that are blocked and/or just don't work here. 4Chan is blocked, shut off by their own team, Xhamster and other tube sites are bringing in age verification apps and crap, like Yoti for Xhamster. You have to provide a 'government approved' I.D to access them, and this is only the start.
It's literally like a meme here -- "oi, yer got a license for that", it's fucking dumb.

 

[traplover19]

U.K user here.
There are already a large number of sites that are blocked and/or just don't work here. 4Chan is blocked, shut off by their own team, Xhamster and other tube sites are bringing in age verification apps and crap, like Yoti for Xhamster. You have to provide a 'government approved' I.D to access them, and this is only the start.
It's literally like a meme here -- "oi, yer got a license for that", it's fucking dumb.

with your country its worse because given the investigations they keep hiding its very obvious that there reasoning i.e protecting children is an outright lie given one of your countries biggest scandals is still being suppressed

 

[Hirosuki]

with your country its worse because given the investigations they keep hiding its very obvious that there reasoning i.e protecting children is an outright lie given one of your countries biggest scandals is still being suppressed

So true, given what has and still is happening in this country at the hands of certain people, it makes this whole bill/law being about 'protecting children' just plain laughable

 

[benisfug]

U.K user here.
There are already a large number of sites that are blocked and/or just don't work here. 4Chan is blocked, shut off by their own team, Xhamster and other tube sites are bringing in age verification apps and crap, like Yoti for Xhamster. You have to provide a 'government approved' I.D to access them, and this is only the start.
It's literally like a meme here -- "oi, yer got a license for that", it's fucking dumb.

Those verification apps are likely storing and selling user data on the side btw. The big leak that just happened with that Tea app thing happened because they said they would delete verification data after some amount of time but they were actually hoarding a bunch "accidentally".

 

[Hagatagar]

I made this a year ago, dunno for what. But funny how fitting this is...

 

[Hagatagar]

It's literally like a meme here -- "oi, yer got a license for that", it's fucking dumb.

Why not use Death Stranding?

You must be registered to see the links

 

[Count Morado]

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I made this a year ago, dunno for what. But funny how fitting this is...

I'm almost certain I know who you made that for...

 

[Hirosuki]

Why not use Death Stranding?

You must be registered to see the links

Fucking LOL, I got around mine using an old image I had of someones poor dad. Just thought that it was a fluke.
This is so stupid

 

[Count Morado]

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I made this a year ago, dunno for what. But funny how fitting this is...

I'm almost certain I know who you made that for...

I was absolutely 100% correct on who's thread it was....

To what end?
This is a pirate site, an age check is the least of its problems if someone really want to check if everything is in order.


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[tretch95]

Those verification apps are likely storing and selling user data on the side btw. The big leak that just happened with that Tea app thing happened because they said they would delete verification data after some amount of time but they were actually hoarding a bunch "accidentally".

EVERY app is collecting and selling user data.

In my country, you practically can't use the only railway monopolist services without installing the railway company app. This app was found to - for example - transmit your entire contact list about 20 times a day. Neither the population nor the government seem to mind.

Basically all apps collect and transmit your GPS movement profile, your surf and app behavior, basically everything the secret services couldn't even have dreamed of merely 20 years ago.

So even if you wouldn't use anything else on your smartphone except the classic telephone - using an app to verify your age because you're forced to do so, and then inevitably revealing your sexual and kink preferences in a way that doesn't leave any form of "plausible deniability" would not just be insane, but also violate several privacy laws in many countries. The lawgivers across the world seem to be unable to match the pace of technological and economical progress.

 

[benisfug]

EVERY app is collecting and selling user data.

In my country, you practically can't use the only railway monopolist services without installing the railway company app. This app was found to - for example - transmit your entire contact list about 20 times a day. Neither the population nor the government seem to mind.

Basically all apps collect and transmit your GPS movement profile, your surf and app behavior, basically everything the secret services couldn't even have dreamed of merely 20 years ago.

So even if you wouldn't use anything else on your smartphone except the classic telephone - using an app to verify your age because you're forced to do so, and then inevitably revealing your sexual and kink preferences in a way that doesn't leave any form of "plausible deniability" would not just be insane, but also violate several privacy laws in many countries. The lawgivers across the world seem to be unable to match the pace of technological and economical progress.

I know data harvesting is everywhere now, I only brought Tea up because it's a recent and verifiable case of a company using ID verification and lying about storing it.

Lawmakers aren't unable to match the pace of tecnology, tech companies hand them fat stacks of donations(bribes) and share user data with governments in exchange for the ability to operate mostly unrestricted.

 

[dijitz23]

Fucking LOL, I got around mine using an old image I had of someones poor dad. Just thought that it was a fluke.
This is so stupid

If it's that easy to circumvent then that should be seen as a bit of a blessing. They're doing something without really doing something. It's like how you have to click the are you 18, or input birth year of 1920. Honestly I feel like if they really wanted to do something then it should be people get neutered internet and then you just have to allow it in your internet provided settings to access 18+ sites. Any device that can connect to the internet should just have it defaulted to off, and the account holder is the one who has to turn it on. Then parents can stop the bs of saying they don't know how to add parental controls for their brats. Maybe pass a rule that sites that host or deal in adult content needs to have some sort of flag so it automatically gets blocked for those who didn't allow it.

 

[Insanatee]

EVERY app is collecting and selling user data.

In my country, you practically can't use the only railway monopolist services without installing the railway company app. This app was found to - for example - transmit your entire contact list about 20 times a day. Neither the population nor the government seem to mind.

Basically all apps collect and transmit your GPS movement profile, your surf and app behavior, basically everything the secret services couldn't even have dreamed of merely 20 years ago.

So even if you wouldn't use anything else on your smartphone except the classic telephone - using an app to verify your age because you're forced to do so, and then inevitably revealing your sexual and kink preferences in a way that doesn't leave any form of "plausible deniability" would not just be insane, but also violate several privacy laws in many countries. The lawgivers across the world seem to be unable to match the pace of technological and economical progress.

It's just ignorance, plain and simple. The lawmakers that passed this don't have the slightest idea about how the technology works or how to implement it.