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    Pornhub to become accessible again for some UK users

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    1. dfuqt on

      Excellent news. Using a VPN gets beyond regional block but videos sometimes stop randomly or even fail to start in the first place.

      So I’ve been told.

    2. Uncle___Marty on

      I’m embarresed on behalf of the entire country because of this ban.

    3. Plus-Literature-7221 on

      I wonder if spoofing your browsers user-agent as an ios device would also grant access

      Shows that the OSA is more about mass surveillance vs stopping kids watching porn

    5. 121daysofsodom on

      My account’s probably older than 18 years now, is that not enough?

    6. Kagerae on

      ”But on Tuesday Pornhub’s owners said Apple users who had confirmed their age with the company’s most up-to-date version of iOS, its mobile operating system, would be allowed back onto the site.”

      For Apple Users, the governments not actually back peddled.

    7. Agitated_Celery_729 on

      I want mandatory session logs of all the porn every single MP has viewed posted monthly. Refusing should have them sit in jail until they comply. If they’re so intent on fucking regular people with their invasive bullshit, let’s hold them to that standard and see how they like it.

      Maybe once the tabloids are running MP porn search stories every few weeks, they’ll piss off and stop with this 1984 bullshit

    8. belliest_endis on

      I’ve got 3000+ hours in Pornhub, completed it many, MANY times and I’m still not sure on the lore attached, lots of different areas of the map seem to have VERY different messages attached when you get there. Yet to see a final boss too.

    9. tripping_yarns on

      Some bloke I know said that he’d never lost access at all. Doesn’t use a VPN and he’s on Mac.

      I think he said he’d done the age verification thing which was no big deal. Apparently.

    10. TheNinthGateLCF on

      OS level authentication was always the correct approach. It’s simple, secure, and there’s few security risks.

      The biggest problem is not having to do the verification – it’s having to do it for every freaking NSFW site you want to access. I can’t wait till they bring it out on Android. 

    11. Bblock4 on

      Wonder how many extra helpdesk calls have been raised since the workforce suddenly got really interested in cyber security/VPNs. 

    12. CoaxialDrive on

      When the OSA first came out, like most was very concerned about the privacy implications due to the necessity for websites to implement services like YOTI which effectively know when and what you are accessing and have the ability to sell this data in future.

      This new “user is 18+” flag in the browser is actually really positive, as Apple already knows what I type into Safari, and they’re not actively involved as a gateway taking pictures of me etc…

      If the line is drawn here and not pushed further, I’d actually relent that this is probably a good outcome, its just a shame the government implement this so badly that everyone used VPNs for 6+ months, rather than working with Google and Apple to implement this first.

      Now the OSA doesn’t work because everyone has VPNs and knows about them, and we’re still stuck with the mess of sites all having to implement this new API.

    13. YoshiMK on

      Makes no sense in reality though because a device being used doesn’t prove anything as it can just be shared (saying that presumably you can just share accounts anyway if you have a verified one).

      If you’re pretending you’re trying to stop children accessing various content they can just use their parents/sibling’s device etc now which makes it easier to bypass and access?

    14. Fish_Goes_Moo on

      So that can put to bed that “account age isn’t allowed” (apple will validate as adult based on account age) and that “any verification has to be one on Ofcoms list” (device based verification isn’t on there).

      That’s not what the law said (just pretty much says robust age assurance) and Ofcom outright state the list is non-exhaustive and any age assurance just has to meet their criteria, but those were always the excuses trotted out when people rightfully said “my account is 20 years old”.

      So this should be the final nail in the coffin for that and MS, Sony and Valve have no excuse for not using account age, they just don’t want to.

    17. GoodBananaPancakes on

      How did Twitter get away with having full-on porn videos while all this was going on?

    19. OllieBonugli on

      It’s accessible for me but it won’t let me sign in without a VPN

    20. johnyma22 on

      Giving even more power and leverage to the duopoly of Alphabet and Apple is not a great long term strategy IMHO. See how they are gating other established tech paradigms (IE apps and payments) and expect the gates to continue into content.

    21. Whitechix on

      What’s stopping a child from verifying their apple account as 18+? It’s not difficult if you ask your parents, mine were convinced to give their credit card a lot when I was a kid. In the end bad parents will mean all this intrusive control is meaningless, I’m assuming I’m missing the obvious here.

    22. fantomas_ on

      The year is 2065. Cranking the hog to big booty Latinas is completely prohibited by the overseer and his loyal army of flagshaggers. Even the thought of downloading a VPN and going off on the old luncheon truncheon can get you 5 years in an East Anglian gulag. But there’s hope out there for all those who can remember the days of freely riffing on the skin flute; Johnny Thundercock and his underground gang of swan stranglers will no longer play pocket billiards in the shadows. No. The time has come! Fight back! Come commerades, tug for victory! Cry wank for Charlie, England and St George!

    23. Jimbobthon on

      Sounds good on paper, and Apple did their OS iD checks. Would it work with Android, or not possible as it’s open source near enough

    24. Loreki on

      Not actually progress. PornHub has just decided to cross-recognise Apple’s industry leading invasive ID checks.

      Which is fair enough I suppose. If anyone has an incentive to do this securely and the least incentive to use it to sell people’s identities for pennies, it’s Apple who make billions off owning a whole tech eco system.