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UK's New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable


What, you don't want to submit your ID before visiting a porn site?

Those options vary from annoying to creepily intrusive, but there’s a little hitch in the plan: Currently, most platforms are determining a user’s location based on IP address. According to the BBC, the regulator has rules that make it illegal for platforms to host, share, or allow content that encourages people to use a VPN to bypass the age authentication page. When the methods for accomplishing the stated goal require people to reveal sensitive data, including their financial information, or give up pictures of their face to be scanned and processed by AI, it’s kinda hard to blame anyone for just wanting to avoid that entirely.

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