To tell you that from midnight, you'll have to upload ID to watch porn???!!!

It applies as much to accessing alcohol, potato peelers etc. on the net as it does to accessing porn on the net.

Again, touchingly naive. The online porn industry is not as safe and reliable as Amazon or Ebay or Marks and Spencers online.

Yes. The law is forcing desperate people to give their personal details to scammers.

If those desperate people are under age they will be using their mum's.

Luckily most people will simply use a VPN, but some won't and the people who profit will be the nasty bastards who run porn sites.

As you hint, it's literally a law that harms desperate people and helps the porn industry.

Or we could just ban Pornhub 🤷‍♀️

If you want to give your details away because you're so desperate to watch filmed abuse, crack on.

My advice in all Internet matters is:

Do your research.
If you dont trust a site, move on. Don't look back.
Understand that there is always a risk. Nothing in life is risk free.
Mitigate your risk by using a credit card, have insurance etc.

It applies as much to accessing alcohol, potato peelers etc. on the net as it does to accessing porn on the net.

It won’t stop kids accessing inappropriate material. Just like they access vapes, films and drugs. Teenagers will find a way.

An older sibling will grant access. Or a parent won’t care and will allow access. Or they will get their tech savvy friend to get round it. Or use a stolen credit card. Or their parents ancient email address (which is linked to their parents finances). Or the dark web. Or 18 year old brother accesses porn, 14 year old records using his phone. It’s not hard.

Or the techie kids will help their peers. The top three or four kids in year 7 IT are very competent, never mind year 10.

Wait until drunk naive 18 year olds upload their passport and end up being blackmailed. Has that been risk assessed?

Or 13 year old goes into the dark web and accesses more than porn?

Or parents bank is accessed due to a child using the parents ancient email address?

This is about controlling what adults can access hidden as a concern for kids. If they were concerned for kids there wouldn’t be a rape gang scandal as authorities would have acted long ago. And rapes wouldn’t be rocketing in number.

I noticed this new rule while scrolling through some sites last night.
I found though that it wasn't all sites that make you do it.

Maybe Google your preferred type and find the ones that aren't complying.

UK government: please upload your credit card details and ID to watch porn. We promise it’s totally secure

Also the UK government: oops, we’ve accidentally given a list of 20,000 taliban enemies’ names to the taliban

(tongue in cheek, of course, but still)

No one is forcing them to hand over their details. No one is forcing them to watch porn. It's a choice they make.

Same as men who want to access Internet porn.🤷‍♀️

Literotica audio section! Just as good if not better imo as you can use your imagination a bit more.

I think I’m perfectly capable of not using this email address for anything else than spam / verification stuff

but thanks for your concern 😂

😂😂

Some women will. Probably 10s of thousands.

Until one day you forget and use it for something that can be related back to you.

And even if you don't, some woman somewhere will. There is no safe way to give personal data to a pornsite.

That was self evident to all of us a week ago. Now all of a sudden half the country have decided some Nigerian bloke with a web site is as Trustworthy as their building society!

So dont do it.🤷‍♀️

Yeah but it’s an email address I use for spam / junk sign up stuff and not in my real name so they can do what they want with it
it’s not linked to my credit card / bank account I’ve never used it for anything like that

I wouldn’t give them my real email address with my real personal details on it

You wrote:
and if they use their GFs bank details or e-mail? Or their mum's?

If they did that they would be guilty of identity fraud because they used another person's bank and personal details without their consent and with the intent to provide false information.

Erm. I don’t watch porn - I have no inclination. Who would want to watch poor, desperate, probably drug-addicted strangers’ nether regions being banged out of all proportion.

Absolute yuck (and incredibly sad).

porn hub just wanted an email address and nothing else to age verify took less than a minute they obviously have a way of knowing how old an email address is

Touchingly naive. You have no idea what they did with that email address. It's entirely possible they didn't check your age at all, just sold it to scammers. Or maybe they used it as intended and then still sold it to scammers.

And that's at the more legit end of the market. The small sites that routinely give their viewers viruses and malware are going to have a field day with bank details and email addresses.

Giving porn sites your personal data is insane, they are not trustworthy.

Kids will just use a vpn
hide my ass was popular with teens till they started charging for it - teens liked the name 😂

opera browser will work perfectly well free to get as an app and take no time at all to install on your phone - job done

most people have a few email address that they use so they can email verify

porn hub just wanted an email address and nothing else to age verify took less than a minute they obviously have a way of knowing how old an email address is
I’ve had most of mine for 15 plus years so unless I was 3 when I set them up I’m clearly over 18

they offered facial scan and ID & banking and text verification as well so very helpful of them 😂

reddit offered various ways but a face scan was easy to do and took less than a minute but they also offered email address banking & iD verification

some websites offer mobile text verification
so again dead easy to use and no trace
and you can use a texting app or hush to get a fake number if your phone isn’t a contract and therefore already age verified

most sites offer different ways to access them
all of them are dead easy and take less than a minute to do

porn is a multi billion dollar business they aren’t going to let a stupid law stop them from making money

if anyone really thinks that porn won’t be accessible they are naive and sadly mistaken

Reddit has already made some mental health subs unavailable unless you provide id

It seems anything marked nsfw (which is a wide range of things) seems to now need id verification

Posters have no discovered they can't see their own threads because they contain a lot of swearing, discussion of things like sexual health, discussion of true murder docs
Etc all because it's nsfw

You have to verify and alot of the verification is done by shady 3rd parties with limited info about how they store

I think reddits is American and fall under their patriot act where American companies legally have to give up user data to the American government if asked

I'm not overly comfortable with having my data stored by dodgy companies, overseas companies etc

This is completely prime for a massive leak

This doesn’t go anywhere near far enough.

Pornography is making men in to monsters, hugely harmful for children and damaging to society all round.

It needs to be banned completely.

It's not fraud or theft.

My point is Pornsites do not have our best interests at heart.

Most women will use a VPN. Some will hand over personal details. And that is going to impact very badly on many of them.

Those men will be guilty of theft and identity fraud perpetrated on the women they claim to love.

Im not sure what your point is here @GreenIsMyFavoriteColour.

Same.

But I can see why people might enjoy consuming the vast amount of content that isn't made by people in those circumstances.