The UK recently passed a law requiring submitting a photo ID to access adult content. It's also super unclear on very important specifics

Blocking VPNs from posting or vviewing content too?

What's funny about that is the VPN I use I saw advertised on Reddit. I wonder if these companies know that they ban users for using their products? Well I guess they don't really don't care.

Remember when you didn't even need an email address to sign up for reddit?

If I need to look at that site, my LibRedirect extension sends me to a privacy focused mirror

Mullvad has couple of USA exits that don’t get blocked by Reddit. Texas and D.C., I think.

Indefatigable horndogs best band name calling dibs now

the Irish statistically look like absolutely indefatigable horndogs

What did you think that "wild rover" they keep singing about was? 😉

Pornhub stats: Irish +28572%

Kagi is a new-ish search engine that is popular among Lemmy users. Those users are trying to get it to catch on, and have started using kagi as a verb, the same way people say “let me google that really quick.”

It honestly feels a lot like when Microsoft was trying to get Bing and their phone OS to take off, and started slipping product placement into popular TV shows. There was a brief time period in American TV, where characters had the disgusting line of “Bing it!” Usually while showing the Bing home page on a Microsoft Phone. It was just blatant ham-fisted cringey product placement.

There's a search engine named Kagi. It's basically the equivalent of "googles" but for a different search engine.

https://kagi.com/

Italy made VPNs practically illegal. The UK might soon follow. And surfing the web with a VPN is a painful torrent of capchas. And email addresses you can get without revealing your phone number to identify yourself are becoming sparse too.

If you'd want to actually address the issue (insofar unsupervised teenagers watching porn is an issue) you'd need something like a U2F security key that can be used as anonymous age verification and be bought anonymously in a physical shop for cash, just by showing your ID to a clerk (without your details being stored). Keys being stolen or misused could then also be flagged in a public database.

Sure, it's not about wasting their time; this says they're using a 3rd party service to verify, so theoretically they're paying for that service. It's about wasting their money.

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

But Spez will still edit your comments. I don't know how reddit has still some users left after that and the API train wreck.

As someone with long hair and a long beard I haven't been carded in basically 10+ years.

Last weekend I got carded buying a beer with my parents-in-laws. Of course one of the very few times I didn't have my ID.

Two 65+ people order a beer and then like, oh we'll get your beer on our tab to make things easier. Bartender "I'll need to see his ID"

We all couldn't believe it. I wasn't upset or anything, it was just kind of absurd feeling. I've been drinking for almost 20 years.

It's one of those situations where common sense should be allowed to be used.

The stuffed bra has deferred many an ID check.

Don't be sexist. Gray is gray.

It's not all around great but I think New Zealand has a pretty decent government

And then you'll need to use a VPN if you're in the UK, which is recommended anyway.

And once they do that, this place will get some new users. Guaranteed.