Laut Pornhub sind die Besucherzahlen in Großbritannien seit Einführung der Alterskontrolle um 77 % zurückgegangen

Seeing that 70k id“s were leaked, its probably People using the same stolen id’s over and over again.

23% had no issue proving their age, rest use vpn

On the plus side 50 million Dutch people are now on Pornhub.

TOR browser for the win.

23% decided on going with age verification services, which is disappointing…

No doubt some Government minister will reach the conclusion that previously 77% of PH users were children…

Might be the VPN Im using, although Ireland has 1 extra user.

Well, VPN takes care of it

*On a completely unrelated note, Pornhub traffic from the Netherlands has increased 300%. Now on to the weather, Jen.*

How do people in the UK verify the age?

How about all the other sites with basically no moderation and way more illegal content?

Great, so when do we implement this on something truly harmful like social media?

I’ve gotta be more careful the next time I buy an e-Sim.. I was in Greece and Spain in September and used Orange, but it came with a French number. Next time I’ll be buying local. It was very inconvenient to access some sites. Lol. I got lucky and the wifi wasn’t too bad in my hotels. Never again.

Less washing machine usage,I’m all for green initiatives 🤪

It’s those embedded ads that finally got me to quit

VPN providers and other p0rn videos sites say: „Thank You!“. This PH thing shows how stupid and easily circumventable some governments decisions are (and so, how they are put up just to feed the propaganda and no real intention of stopping the phenom).

Over the last year I’ve been bought dozens of high capacity storage drives, and downloaded hundreds of thousands porn videos, I have a home network set up which stream porn videos on demand. YOU’LL NEVER STOP ME FROM WANKING, KEIR!!!

YSK Free VPN services likely still log and probably sell traffic data.

VPNs are so good, aren’t they?

BREAKING NEWS: Porn hub becomes the most browsed site in South Sudan with 50 million people accessing it daily (it has only 11 million citizens)

Oh I bet the users haven’t changed that much, they’re just using VPNs now.

Pornhub says the number of UK visitors to its website is down 77% compared with July, when more rigorous age checks for sexually explicit sites were introduced under the Online Safety Act.

It claims sites that are ignoring the new requirements are benefiting.

The BBC has not been able to independently verify Pornhub’s claim – however, data from Google shows searches for the site have decreased by almost half since the law came into effect.

This could be a consequence of people reducing their porn use but could also be partly explained by people visiting the site through alternative means such as a VPN, which masks a user’s location.

Pornhub is the most visited porn site in the world – and the 19th most visited on the entire web, [according to data from Similarweb](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j58pwy82no).

Under the OSA, anyone accessing such websites in the UK now has to prove they are over 18 with age checks such as facial identification.

The firm’s claim is the latest indication that people in the UK are changing how they use the internet since the Online Safety Act came into effect.

According to Ofcom, visits to pornography sites in general in the UK have reduced by almost a third in the three months since 25 July.

The regulator said the new law was fulfilling its primary purpose of stopping children from being able to „easily stumble across porn without searching for it“.

„Our new rules end the era of an age-blind internet, when many sites and apps have undertaken no meaningful checks to see if children were using their services,“ the watchdog said.

Ofcom told the BBC it believed the number of people using VPNs for general use reached 1.5 million daily in July, after the law came in, but has since decreased to around one million.

Meanwhile, [research by Cybernews](https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-usage-is-exploding-in-the-uk-heres-how-it-compares-to-europe-and-the-us) counted more than 10.7 million downloads of VPN apps in the UK from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store across 2025.

„It is likely that people not wanting to verify their age or identity to access sexual content, for example because of privacy concerns, are using VPNs to get around this,“ Dr Hanne Stegeman from the University of Exeter told the BBC.

„As the location of website visitors are usually determined through IP addresses, it could be that those figures are inaccurate when a portion of visitors are using VPNs.“

And Cybernews information security researcher Aras Nazarovas told the BBC people in the UK „can and do“ use VPNs.

„After age checks kicked in, VPN apps jumped to the top of the UK App Store, and at least one provider saw a 1,800% surge in downloads,“ he said.

„So part of Pornhub’s ‚missing‘ UK audience hasn’t vanished – it’s being reclassified as non‑UK traffic.“

But he said he believed „the rest“ was indeed „users shifting to sites that don’t require age checks“.