“We want your ID, give us your ID you can trust us, honest”.
BLightyear67 on
Seems like they are trying to get as many users signed up before 2nd Feb as possible.
ReligiousGhoul on
>In a call on Tuesday, leadership at Aylo and **Ethical Capital Partners (ECP)**, which acquired Aylo in 2023, said that after six months of complying with the UK’s Online Safety Act, it’s made the choice to restrict access in the country entirely.
>“We have seen six months of failure out of the United Kingdom, once again, not because OFCOM is failing, but because the law is failing,” Friedman said. “And for that reason, from the ECP perspective, as the ownership group of Aylo, **we want laws around the world that protect children**.”
Wasn’t this the same website that had so much child pornography and revenge porn, they opted to just delete all non-verified videos than actually moderate??
No-Quit3994 on
I’m okay – I live in Poland, or maybe Hungary, or was it Bosnia, oh, Croatia …. I get about …
Edit: I have PIA on this machine, but I bought an Invizbox a few years ago which means I can VPN through that without needing a pay for another VPN app on mobile or other devices. Solid bit of kit. https://www.invizbox.com/shop/. (not affiliated in anyway, just trying to be helpful).
shak_0508 on
Hope more companies restrict access to us so our dumb as shit government gets the message that the OSA is a bunch of bullshit.
In the meantime get a VPN.
lastaccountgotlocked on
I, for one, am looking forward to a new golden age of tatty porno mags returning to British hedgerows.
SirJedKingsdown on
Well, they can have my face if they want it. I didn’t know why, I certainly don’t.
LordLucian on
Right to privacy should be a basic human right jfc
Ok-Inflation4310 on
Are there any other porn sites that won’t be available?
Asking for a friend.
nubnutts on
You can’t access it now unless you give over your identity
Lost-Droids on
The Online safety act is failing in so many ways. This is 1 more example. A site that for the most part followed rules (for checks, content and even consent etc before OSA) and had vanila porn is now going to block UK as its just to much cost\hasle\risk.
The only reason they bothered in the first place was that they had (like a lot of the larger more reputable ones that also followed the rules) a presence\offices or similar in the UK so risk was that they could be fined
This left all the others (the smaller\more dodgy sites ) that did not have a UK presence available to UK viewers and these sites contained everything not just vanila but extreme including animal . They are still there, still accessible and even more popular because they dont require age checks
Now they want to do the same for VPN… Which will again effect the big companies or the UK based ones whilst allowing the more dodgy ones to thrive..
MDFHASDIED on
Kind of ironic considering the country is run by wankers.
Heuchelei on
I’ve been in Estonia for a few months now. This doesn’t affect me here in Stockport
TheCharalampos on
Plenty of sites that host porn without any of the (frankly limited) filtering or safeguards that pornhub has that I guess the UK goverment wants people to use instead?
amore_pomfritte on
Fortunately I still have Mrs Brown’s tits in the wank bank. Circa 1980.
cvslfc123 on
I haven’t knocked one out in the UK since this ridiculous thing started.
North Macedonia seems to also remove Reddit adverts. Why not browse the internet from there.
Disgruntled__Goat on
Am I missing where they state what the actually issue is? They already added age verification, why remove it?
andercode on
Honestly… im surprised its taken them this long. They get most their money from advertising, the UK is a high value target for advertising, and traffic dropped over 80% from UK visitors overnight.
At some point (and I guess they have reached it) it becomes cheaper to block countries with OSA style verifications than continue to follow the rules.
Very short sighted legislation from the government, and i blame both, the Conservatives for raising it and labour for not blocking it once in power.
corf3l on
I tend to only visit the site on my daily trip to Colombia or Albania so I don’t think this will impact me.
Anubis1958 on
Is that cheering and clapping I hear? No, its just the ghosts of Mary WhiteHouse and Lord Longford
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBnugm29E4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBnugm29E4)
somedegree123 on
Kier focusing on the important issues here, ensuring the UK has no privacy whatsoever and outsourcing parenting to US corpos
Nublar_Repair_Man on
It’s so easy to get to shady websites that don’t comply
Why block the ones that do?
Literally takes seconds to find them on Google or Bing
DennisAFiveStarMan on
Probably risking people going to less legitimate sites, more dangerous to computer and worse content
Yamosu on
I’m seriously considering hosting a small VPS overseas and running my own tailscale node.
Additional_Pickle_59 on
Doesn’t stop people accessing it, just makes them use more dubious and worrying methods
Sites that don’t follow the ban are usually riddled with viruses and videos that are pretty messed up.
Wadarkhu on
At this point our ISPs, regulated by UK law, might as well require your information & card info upon set-up of your home’s internet service and also for unrestricted connection via mobile data network.
Oh wait, they do, they already have all that information.
notleave_eu on
It’s ridiculous. Unenforceable. And costing us money.
This decision doesn’t happen in a vacuum and would have cost us money too. The enforcement now and in the future isn’t without taxpayer costs either. And for what??? So I couldn’t view an American news site from Reddit today without travelling to the Netherlands first.
Whilst Google will serve you up anything you want.
Ron-Lim on
They are speed running the record low approval rating
d_smogh on
I’m still annoyed IMGUR is still blocked for the UK
ohthedarside on
Ok
I mean i live in the netherlands and definitely always have
Bottled_Void on
The biggest thing I noticed is that if you use a VPN, you’re now served up the ‘illegal to the UK porn’ like piss porn. It’s not my thing, but I feel like this has massively backfired.
Dashingthroughcoke on
I used to laugh at Americans when it was introduced in Texas…
Trundlenator on
….. however many other (insert x country) users will be flooding onto pornhub at a rate similar to the number of uk users not accessing from the UK.
The decline in thinking/intelligence of this country’s leadership is sadly apparent more and more lately.
Harilari on
Got to be honest, this whole OSA thing basically killed any support for Labour I had, and I’ve been voting for them since Nick Clegg could show his face in public.
But you know what the real killer is?
Every time I get one of these “Verify Your Age” things, or every time I go to a website that says “We don’t serve Brits round here” I’m reminded that Labour did this to us. That Starmer did this to us. That my gormless mug is floating around the Internet somewhere because scant weeks after the OSA came into law Discord’s Bottom Tier Verification Service got hacked.
Sure, I’ll read things here and there about how Labour are making progress with housing, or some other things. But everytime I bump up against one of these walls, it’s like a screaming reminder to my brain “Labour Bad”. It truly is the selfburn that keeps on burning politically.
OliverE36 on
… Honestly, I think it’s a good thing to restrict access to porn for children – I however find it very hard to trust any ID collection by any website – let alone a porn site.
notmeagainagain on
Even with OSA, huge glaring (glory) hole in the implementation.
I can use Google, disable safe search, type what I want and see the pictures.
I might not be able to access the site the image is from, but I can see it just fine.
This includes thumbnails from Pornhub videos.
Who is this supposed to protect?
(Tested on a new Google account)
Cozimo128 on
It was a House of Lords vote, where the majority in favour were Conservative and the majority against were Labour.
Needless to say, the Government being Labour and all, this isn’t as clear cut as the headline tries to portray.
Tired af of clickbait.
PulsatingBalloonKnot on
What’s the chances of the Kays Catalogue adding a section involving midgets fisting a donkey?
MetalingusMikeII on
This is the dumbest fucking shit I’ve read, all week. They’re blatantly attempting to force everyone into the whole digital ID shite.
SpatulaWholesale on
Taking away our porn…
It’s a bold strategy. Let’s see how it works out for them at the next election.
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“We want your ID, give us your ID you can trust us, honest”.
Seems like they are trying to get as many users signed up before 2nd Feb as possible.
>In a call on Tuesday, leadership at Aylo and **Ethical Capital Partners (ECP)**, which acquired Aylo in 2023, said that after six months of complying with the UK’s Online Safety Act, it’s made the choice to restrict access in the country entirely.
>“We have seen six months of failure out of the United Kingdom, once again, not because OFCOM is failing, but because the law is failing,” Friedman said. “And for that reason, from the ECP perspective, as the ownership group of Aylo, **we want laws around the world that protect children**.”
Wasn’t this the same website that had so much child pornography and revenge porn, they opted to just delete all non-verified videos than actually moderate??
I’m okay – I live in Poland, or maybe Hungary, or was it Bosnia, oh, Croatia …. I get about …
Edit: I have PIA on this machine, but I bought an Invizbox a few years ago which means I can VPN through that without needing a pay for another VPN app on mobile or other devices. Solid bit of kit. https://www.invizbox.com/shop/. (not affiliated in anyway, just trying to be helpful).
Hope more companies restrict access to us so our dumb as shit government gets the message that the OSA is a bunch of bullshit.
In the meantime get a VPN.
I, for one, am looking forward to a new golden age of tatty porno mags returning to British hedgerows.
Well, they can have my face if they want it. I didn’t know why, I certainly don’t.
Right to privacy should be a basic human right jfc
Are there any other porn sites that won’t be available?
Asking for a friend.
You can’t access it now unless you give over your identity
The Online safety act is failing in so many ways. This is 1 more example. A site that for the most part followed rules (for checks, content and even consent etc before OSA) and had vanila porn is now going to block UK as its just to much cost\hasle\risk.
The only reason they bothered in the first place was that they had (like a lot of the larger more reputable ones that also followed the rules) a presence\offices or similar in the UK so risk was that they could be fined
This left all the others (the smaller\more dodgy sites ) that did not have a UK presence available to UK viewers and these sites contained everything not just vanila but extreme including animal . They are still there, still accessible and even more popular because they dont require age checks
Now they want to do the same for VPN… Which will again effect the big companies or the UK based ones whilst allowing the more dodgy ones to thrive..
Kind of ironic considering the country is run by wankers.
I’ve been in Estonia for a few months now. This doesn’t affect me here in Stockport
Plenty of sites that host porn without any of the (frankly limited) filtering or safeguards that pornhub has that I guess the UK goverment wants people to use instead?
Fortunately I still have Mrs Brown’s tits in the wank bank. Circa 1980.
I haven’t knocked one out in the UK since this ridiculous thing started.
I’ll carry on going abroad.
Nothing to see here.
Unless you are using Tor Browser (no affiliation): [https://www.torproject.org/download/](https://www.torproject.org/download/)
North Macedonia seems to also remove Reddit adverts. Why not browse the internet from there.
Am I missing where they state what the actually issue is? They already added age verification, why remove it?
Honestly… im surprised its taken them this long. They get most their money from advertising, the UK is a high value target for advertising, and traffic dropped over 80% from UK visitors overnight.
At some point (and I guess they have reached it) it becomes cheaper to block countries with OSA style verifications than continue to follow the rules.
Very short sighted legislation from the government, and i blame both, the Conservatives for raising it and labour for not blocking it once in power.
I tend to only visit the site on my daily trip to Colombia or Albania so I don’t think this will impact me.
Is that cheering and clapping I hear? No, its just the ghosts of Mary WhiteHouse and Lord Longford
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBnugm29E4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBnugm29E4)
Kier focusing on the important issues here, ensuring the UK has no privacy whatsoever and outsourcing parenting to US corpos
It’s so easy to get to shady websites that don’t comply
Why block the ones that do?
Literally takes seconds to find them on Google or Bing
Probably risking people going to less legitimate sites, more dangerous to computer and worse content
I’m seriously considering hosting a small VPS overseas and running my own tailscale node.
Doesn’t stop people accessing it, just makes them use more dubious and worrying methods
Sites that don’t follow the ban are usually riddled with viruses and videos that are pretty messed up.
At this point our ISPs, regulated by UK law, might as well require your information & card info upon set-up of your home’s internet service and also for unrestricted connection via mobile data network.
Oh wait, they do, they already have all that information.
It’s ridiculous. Unenforceable. And costing us money.
This decision doesn’t happen in a vacuum and would have cost us money too. The enforcement now and in the future isn’t without taxpayer costs either. And for what??? So I couldn’t view an American news site from Reddit today without travelling to the Netherlands first.
Whilst Google will serve you up anything you want.
They are speed running the record low approval rating
I’m still annoyed IMGUR is still blocked for the UK
Ok
I mean i live in the netherlands and definitely always have
The biggest thing I noticed is that if you use a VPN, you’re now served up the ‘illegal to the UK porn’ like piss porn. It’s not my thing, but I feel like this has massively backfired.
I used to laugh at Americans when it was introduced in Texas…
….. however many other (insert x country) users will be flooding onto pornhub at a rate similar to the number of uk users not accessing from the UK.
The decline in thinking/intelligence of this country’s leadership is sadly apparent more and more lately.
Got to be honest, this whole OSA thing basically killed any support for Labour I had, and I’ve been voting for them since Nick Clegg could show his face in public.
But you know what the real killer is?
Every time I get one of these “Verify Your Age” things, or every time I go to a website that says “We don’t serve Brits round here” I’m reminded that Labour did this to us. That Starmer did this to us. That my gormless mug is floating around the Internet somewhere because scant weeks after the OSA came into law Discord’s Bottom Tier Verification Service got hacked.
Sure, I’ll read things here and there about how Labour are making progress with housing, or some other things. But everytime I bump up against one of these walls, it’s like a screaming reminder to my brain “Labour Bad”. It truly is the selfburn that keeps on burning politically.
… Honestly, I think it’s a good thing to restrict access to porn for children – I however find it very hard to trust any ID collection by any website – let alone a porn site.
Even with OSA, huge glaring (glory) hole in the implementation.
I can use Google, disable safe search, type what I want and see the pictures.
I might not be able to access the site the image is from, but I can see it just fine.
This includes thumbnails from Pornhub videos.
Who is this supposed to protect?
(Tested on a new Google account)
It was a House of Lords vote, where the majority in favour were Conservative and the majority against were Labour.
Needless to say, the Government being Labour and all, this isn’t as clear cut as the headline tries to portray.
Tired af of clickbait.
What’s the chances of the Kays Catalogue adding a section involving midgets fisting a donkey?
This is the dumbest fucking shit I’ve read, all week. They’re blatantly attempting to force everyone into the whole digital ID shite.
Taking away our porn…
It’s a bold strategy. Let’s see how it works out for them at the next election.