Mildly Infuriating

That is, I believe, a British law that they're following for users that appear to be in the UK. Not like they're going to just disregard the law.

kagis

Yeah, the Online Safety Act 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023

The Online Safety Act 2023[1][2][3] (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate online content. Designed to protect children and adults online, it passed on 26 October 2023 and gives the relevant Secretary of State the power, subject to parliamentary approval, to designate and suppress or record a wide range of online content that is illegal or deemed "harmful" to children.[4][5]

The act creates a new duty of care for online platforms, requiring them to take action against illegal content, or legal content that could be "harmful" to children where children are likely to access it. Platforms failing this duty would be liable to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their annual turnover, whichever is higher. It also empowers Ofcom to block access to particular websites.

So that's what they'll be aiming to do.

Some websites and apps stated they would introduce age verification for users in response to a 25 July 2025 deadline set by Ofcom.[47] These include pornographic websites,[48] but also the social networks Bluesky and Reddit.[49][50]

Probably should be mostly irritated with Parliament.

I expect that using a VPN that terminates in another country will avoid it, though I bet that then you can't do things like buy Reddit Gold, if that's still a thing.

In this one instance I'll give Reddit a pass. This is 100% a fuck the UK government moment

Lol yeah I'm not doing that. VPN all the way.

Today I'm french.

Tomorrow, who knows?

The possibilities are endless.

I wonder if they pay per verification. If so, I wonder how hard it would be to set up a script to just keep submitting new requests a few hundred or thousands of times a day with random photos...

Was using a VPN to watch iPlayer last night and then hopped on reddit and was like "whereintheactualfuck is all the porn‽" Before realizing I had it set to the UK. Blew my mind for a minute

Anyone try a McLovin ID?

In this case I blame the UK government

I'm not sure what you all are doing

If any service requires me to send a photo of myself to use it, I ain't using it.

EDIT: lol wut, Facebook and YouTube want photo ID now?? I must be old enough to have missed out. My comment stands though, if I wasn't already a member on either of those I guess I wouldn't become one!

Does a vpn bypass it?

Edit: btw yes I totally agree with you, I'm just wondering if that would be a workaround

I heard about this but I didn't really believe it, until now.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

"Estimate age from selfie"

fake beard sales dramatically increase

Damn, the website seems to be "with persona dot com" and holy fucking corpo.

I say we all stay off the corporate internet and just come to places like this. Usenet is still a thing, but it's all us binary kids now. Maybe we could go back to how it was in the '90s and actually chat on the platform. There's IRC instead of Discord, message boards instead of Facebook.

Age verification is insane in it's entirety and no payment processor, corpo, government, or think-tank has any right to enforce their puritanical views on sex and Orwellian techno-fascist policies on everyone.

Reads like more material for the Palantir machine.

Try using old.reddit.com. Literally just replace www with old, or add old in front of reddit.com. This should take you to a version of reddit's interface which isn't complete trash and it usually also allows you to bypass the need to login for NSFW content.