I’m curious to know what kind of hoops people have to jump through to verify their age to watch porn?

I mean, how is age verified without identity verification and/or risk of privacy breaches? Do phones or emails get notifications or alerts? Do you have to do it each and every time et al?

I supposed I’m puzzled as to why anyone would risk watching porn if an app or entity is out there ‘verifying’ something, and (presumably) these things can be exploited or hacked.

I’m also assuming (hoping) that there are some hackers out there who are working on a workaround or add on.

thanks

Please share your observations, experiences and/or concerns.

  • locuester@lemmy.zip
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    2 hours ago

    My state requires age identification.

    Non-US owned/friendly porn sites (xvids) simply work like normal. They don’t care.

    The big US name site (ph) blocks the whole site and show a video saying that age verification sucks so they’ll just block the whole states’ users. VPN bypasses easily.

    Not sure how other sites handle. I just checked those 2. I’m not a big pron guy tbh.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    My state is one that has recently adopted age verification requirements. Adult sites seem to be complying through IP geolocation, requiring users in my state to establish accounts. I think they are requiring a credit/debit card on file as evidence of age, but I cannot say that with any certainty.

    VPN servers in less-oppressive jurisdictions bypass the account-creation requirement.

  • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
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    4 hours ago

    It asked in Australia so I copied the link into a stream ripper site and used their preview mode. I’m not a big porn guy but I am a big fuck your rules guy.

  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 hours ago

    I just used a VPN, and when that stops working I’ll either lie to their selfie age ID thing with a video or I’ll find a site that doesn’t age verify.

  • bss03@infosec.pub
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    3 hours ago

    I just bail on any site that requires age verification. It sucks, but there are still some that work. I do hear that using a VPN can often help.

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    4 hours ago

    They have this very complex system of presenting you with two links. One lets you access the tiddies, the other sends you to Club Penguin. Impossible to circumvent. But some hackers claim to manage to do it by “reading”.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    Nope. Even if the government (Brazil) controlling my homeland is one of those shitting “think on the children! [because we don’t]” laws.

    I don’t know if this is related to my browser reporting my geolocation as NZ, and the default page language being Italian, it’s possible bad design is helping me out.