Recent content by lazy llama

I found this where they tell providers not to encourage VPN use... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/age-assurance

And I’m sure Ofcom have a solid 100% means of detecting VPNs which they’ll be sharing with everyone. 😂

Also Reform UK have come out saying they'd scrap the OSA, and the media frenzy that happens whenever Reform say anything means lots of people end up talking about it. https://www.servelegal.co.uk/news/surge-in-vpn-use-as-internet-users-reject-online-safety-act The fact that VPN uptake has...

Hi @AndrewSimm Great addon which I've been using quite a lot - many thanks. The one thing I am having issues with is the Force Ignore: Force one user to ignore another user Two way force ignore option Users that are force ignored cannot remove force ignore If one of the users is already...

This one https://xenforo.com/community/resources/add-on-update-notifier.9002/ There will be one built in to the core Xenforo system when 2.4 is released.

I think it just shows how unrealistic the OFCOM rules are. Because everyone reads the TOS don’t they? Thoroughly, and memorise them for later recollection. Before asking what kind of lettuce to give their hamster. 😄 And anyone who was likely to post that sort of harm is unlikely to give a stuff...

It all comes across, particularly regarding the blocking of access to pornography by children, as putting a heavy load on legit organisations which are trying to comply, with any illicit sites who don't really care probably being out of realistic reach of OFCOM. The most they will be able to do...

Not sure that OFCOM would need to prosecute, they seem to be handed regulatory powers so can impose fines without court involvement; it’s not clear from their website. So they could fine the forum, but how would that fine be enacted? I doubt the site owner, who the BBC have identified in...

The WHOIS records just show Cloudflare, as they do for any domain registered with them, e.g. one of mine - gonegeeky.com. From what I can see, OFCOM can fine them up to £18m, though I suspect US courts wouldn't back any enforcement under First Amendments rights etc. Being on shared Cloudflare...

Although OFCOM are not naming it, it's very easy to find and their frontpage confirms it's the one OFCOM are looking into. It's running Xenforo v2.2.15, though there's no branding on the main site. It's also behind Cloudflare.

That wasn’t the fines though, it was the cost of compliance. If it were the fines, it would probably be cheaper to wait to be fined than to bother trying to comply. (Beaten to it by @zappaDPJ )

It does actually have a go at defining a user: So a guest would count, but a bot would not? Not saying that's a usable definition, but they have a stab at it. (How do you know a user is an individual in the UK - could be on a VPN, could be an AI....)

Category 1 U2U means 34 million UK users active each month, or 7 million UK users active if they can share “regulated user-generated content”, both with content recommender systems. I would imagine that excludes most Xenforo admins.

Are both sites on the same server? Are you using any caching, e.g memcached? I had an issue upgrading from 2.2 to 2.3 where the cache config format differs slightly and one of the effects was that 2FA broke.

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