The Morning After: You Need To Take An Age Verification Selfie To Watch Adult Content Online In The Uk

Anyone trying to watch porn online successful nan UK will request to return a selfie first – aliases stock a photograph ID. (Yes, some of those mightiness ruin nan ‘mood.’) The UK authorities began checking compliance pinch its Online Safety Act past Friday, which requires immoderate website that publishes aliases displays pornographic contented to instrumentality a strategy for "highly effective property checks."

Popular porn sites, including nan country's most-visited site, PornHub, person agreed to nan caller regulations. The rules besides use to platforms for illustration X and making love apps, wherever big images whitethorn beryllium shared. Social media sites for illustration Reddit and Bluesky person already implemented an property verification system. Some of these property checks tin beryllium sidestepped by assigning a caller location to profiles or, your friend and mine, utilizing a VPN.

In response, downloads of VPN apps have exploded.

— Mat Smith

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