UK Online Safety Regulations and impact on Forums
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Another one here - it didn't fool yoti though.So far just the odd Reddit, Discord and YouTube plus one adult site not directly related to pornography. According to the BBC, 6,000 adult related sites are now sitting behind age verification. Are there really that many?!
UK to see 6,000 porn sites verifying user age, Ofcom says
Despite the law some remain sceptical about the effectiveness of porn age checks.www.bbc.co.uk
Interestingly I've already seen multiple videos detailing easy methods to circumvent age verification without the need to employ a VPN.
[EDIT] Just to add to the above...
VPNs top App Store charts as Online Safety Act age checks kick in
Experts say free versions of such apps or services may carry potential security and privacy risks.
Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode
Thanks, Sam
www.theverge.com
Anyway, my site is back and running and doing ok. 100 new sign ups in the past 2 months, so building up again gradually. However all the images I stripped exif from pre March 17th, stopped showing up on apple devices which was a bit of a nightmare - and only resolved by converting all images to webp now via the image optimisation (which I probably should have done in the first place 
as that strips exif too).
Signed up for affiliate links with 2 or 3 places, for existing products already on the site, to help with extra costs. So far have made the grand sum of £1
as that strips exif too).Signed up for affiliate links with 2 or 3 places, for existing products already on the site, to help with extra costs. So far have made the grand sum of £1
Mr Lucky
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What did they use to verify?
I don't know because I didn't try. It just came up with a message on the video saying you need to verify age to watch this video. I assume you had to then click on that message in a box and it would start a verification process.
RobinHood
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I read that they're age gating specific subreddits and anything labelled with nsfw tags, but I've not been asked to verify yet.
Quite a few of my top carefully curated streaming video sites all now have logins. I might have to head into the attic and blow the dust off some old school VHS tapes like the good old days.
Quite a few of my top carefully curated streaming video sites all now have logins. I might have to head into the attic and blow the dust off some old school VHS tapes like the good old days.
Mr Lucky
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I'm just wodering if it has changed from the previous age verification of "click here if you are 18 or over to view the naughty video"
I had trouble finding something adult to test on youtube. But if you put s.e.x in a couple come up. The message says "Sign in to confirm your age - this video may be inappropriate for some users." If you click on that, it takes you to the Google/youtube login page. Didn't go further than that. So presumably once you've signed in, they either know you're over 18 (from a previous verification maybe) or they take you through some kind of age verification process.
MattW
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Back to the good old days of finding the source material in a hedge or a bush
It's weird how many people found magazines in a plastic bag in a random field, bush, back alley, etc.
Almost like randoms were providing a service to the next generation.
RobinHood
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It's as if they were planting seeds, so other could....actually, I'll refrain from finishing that analogy. Just like so many people in the UK are going to have to refrain from finishing this week without access to sufficient source material.
MarcusMoon
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He'd rather re-watch his VHS collection than risk compromising his personal info for access to similar content.I didn't quite understand thatWhy would you need vhs tapes?
zappaDPJ
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@Alvin63, if you are not aware, included in the details of the petition to repeal the Online Safety Act...
petition.parliament.uk
Free the hamster!
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
petition.parliament.uk
Free the hamster!
Thank you. The gov's response is very similar to Ofcom's isn't it?@Alvin63, if you are not aware, included in the details of the petition to repeal the Online Safety Act...
Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
Free the hamster!
Talking about proportionality. They're ignoring the financial impact and time involved in small sites doing these risk assessments. They're not exactly offering any funding or free resources are they?!It seems the Online Safety Act is trending on X with a lot of people talking about wanting to repeal it (amend it might be better rather than repeal it). I'm just curious as to why there's this big surge against it now, and not over the past 6 months while it was being implemented.
benFF
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Because nobody had to do age verification to get on ******* before
Ah right. So it's about having to show ID. Yet all but one of the age verification companies I researched, said they don't save any data whatsoever.Because nobody had to do age verification to get on ******* before