Die britischen Benutzer von Reddit müssen jetzt nachweisen, dass sie 18 sind, um viele Arten von Inhalten anzuzeigen
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/
Von vriska1
Die britischen Benutzer von Reddit müssen jetzt nachweisen, dass sie 18 sind, um viele Arten von Inhalten anzuzeigen
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/reddit-starts-verifying-ages-of-uk-users-to-comply-with-child-safety-law/
Von vriska1
36 Kommentare
Anyone got a good vpn they trust?
Not that bothered about Reddit atm but all my favourite porn sites are starting to do this or will start doing this. Would rather not give dodgy sites likely based in Russia any more of my personal info. They probably have enough videos of me having a wank
I think this’ll just make people use VPNs more, honestly.
Remember when the uk had free access to the internet..
I have a 16 year-old account. What are the chances I was 2 when I signed up?
Fuck off.
Not surprised, it’s one of the reasons Reddit locked all the NSFW subs out with an API. I wonder how much of Reddit’s traffic comes from there.
I’m sure this will save all the children!
On an unrelated note I’ve invested my life savings into VPN companies
Should have marked this as NSFW just for the fun of it
That’s good – we’re teaching our young people to become more tech savvy and security conscious by encouraging them all to learn about VPNs.
I still have NordVPN from when visited one of those countries that don’t allow free access to the internet. So it’s nice to see UK is about as free as an authoritarian regime.
Another website for me to use a VPN on them.
It’s stupid how we have to give over details like ID just to view certain content.
I’m in the UK and have not noticed any changes. I have not been asked to verify either. Am I just too boring?
The bigger problem is that the UK is leaning more and more towards censorship and government playing Big Brother.
Police arresting and charging people for what they say online (for now due to “hate speech”) and now they’re effectively also going to be able to identify you by forcing all these companies to obtain a record of your ID. Incredibly slippery slope.
Yeah no way I’m giving my photo and ID to a private company to let them know I watch porn
What are the odds they’re gonna have a major security breach in the next year? Almost inevitable.
Anyone else not verified with an email? I created my account before email verification was required. What we gonna do?
So I already have a VPN. I’m probably just gonna leave it auto connected from now on. Is it fastest when I choose the closest country to me? (Ireland) or are there specific countries that are best?
How is this not a breach of any rights
The internet used to be the last free area of life now its even more restricted what are we china?
Sending your ID to a 3rd party to view pornographic content has a very high privacy bar to clear. There are enough words like „promise“ in that article that I don’t think this meets bar.
Guess I’ll go without onlyfans model ads
The U.K. is adopting all the bad parts of China without the modern tech and GDP growth
Maaan how am I supposed to get my daily fix of russian’s getting gibbed now?! 🙁
„We have tried to do this in a way that protects the privacy of UK redditors. To verify your age, we partner with a trusted third-party provider ([Persona](https://withpersona.com/)) who performs the verification on either an uploaded selfie or a photo of your government ID“ A US based company no less…
Fuck that…
Mullvad about to get some extra use on my end then.
In case anyone is interested here is a breakdown of sorts for the Ofcom regulations.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act-explainer/online-safety-act-explainer#who-the-act-applies-to
In my humble pleb opinion this will solve absolutely nothing and if anything will probably cause more issues on the „THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!“ front. Kids will seek out porn, by having this in place all you’ll be doing is forcing them down a rabbithole towards more sketchy sites that don’t give a shit about this ruling.
Technologically this is a waste of time but I can somewhat understand wanting to limit access to adult sites by those under 16. What I don’t understand is why sites without porn are doing this as well.
I would say that this is performative bollocks and the government know that we know it, but what happens when they start talking about the VPNs that people are using to circumvent the age verification and how they need to do something about them………..
I don’t suppose that anyone more informed than me could explain how on earth a selfie verification is supposed to prove… anything? Other than being really invasive?
Because I know teenagers who could pass for their 20s, and at least one 25 year old who looks about 14, and what really is the difference exactly in the face of a 17 year old, to an 18 year old?
It just seems weird lol
This sort of encroachment in the name of public safety is exhausting.
We are being shamed out of using porn. Nobody wants to link their ID to their porn profile.
time to leave reddit if they are going to police access!!
Whatever party green light this is going to have their popularity polls tank. Next election the party who promises „free porn!“ will win
I have spent many years explaining to people that VPNs are not security/privacy tools and should not be treated as such. And most people should not be subscribed to one.
Now that I’ll need to hand over PII to view content the UK Government deems to be 18+, I’ve changed my stance. This sort of overreach is an excellent use case for a VPN
This does fuck all but cause headache for users and whatever company has to keep or validate id.
How long before they include „dangerous“ political content?
This is actually mad; we should not have to use our government ID just to access 18+ content. It’s a very slippery slope imho and a violation of privacy.
And will the UK government implement a mechanism for doing this in a privacy-respecting way? No? Oh well.
So what’s the workaround?
I am am a grown arse 30 something and do not want to give some shoddy third party thing my payment details or my face or my id
Why isn’t privacy guides all over this
Yeah reddits going down the hill for me, there’s no chance in hell they’re getting my ID and access to user data.
VPN inc.