What are people's opinions on this?
In the UK porn sites have to have age verification to show pornographic material as of yesterday. I had a look at Pornhub to see what would happen and yep, there it is. I can't access it unless I provide proof of my age, i.e. a photo of my passport or driving license.
There is absolutely no way I will be providing this to a porn site. I'm sure Pornhub is very reputable (apart form in one aspect obviously) but would I really trust a random website with this? They can use a third party verification service but I don't think these are regulated. I personally think it is a hideous invasion of privacy. I get the motives behind it, so children can't access porn. It reminds me of the 90s "video nasties" in the UK, a group of films that were banned because they would warp children's minds and turn them into psychopathic killers. Out of these films I had already seen Childsplay and actively tried to seek out one of the others called Zombie Flesh Eaters. Did they turn me a into a killer? No, I found they hilariously bad and I still to this day have not killed anyone.
I have a VPN fro work, so I decided to log in with that, turned it on to USA and there you go, pornhub is available. Literally all I do is turn the VPN on and I'm past the block. There is always a way past these things, and I suspect if they clamp down on VPNs etc (which would be bad for a multitude of reasons UK politicians are too technologically inept to understand) people will just go to the dark web, so you can see where this is goin.
What do people in the UK think of this?
Do you fear using a porn site and the details being leaked in a hack? Are you gay and in the closet? Would you be happy that your details are logged looking at gay porn if there is a hack or data leak?
In the UK porn sites have to have age verification to show pornographic material as of yesterday. I had a look at Pornhub to see what would happen and yep, there it is. I can't access it unless I provide proof of my age, i.e. a photo of my passport or driving license.
There is absolutely no way I will be providing this to a porn site. I'm sure Pornhub is very reputable (apart form in one aspect obviously) but would I really trust a random website with this? They can use a third party verification service but I don't think these are regulated. I personally think it is a hideous invasion of privacy. I get the motives behind it, so children can't access porn. It reminds me of the 90s "video nasties" in the UK, a group of films that were banned because they would warp children's minds and turn them into psychopathic killers. Out of these films I had already seen Childsplay and actively tried to seek out one of the others called Zombie Flesh Eaters. Did they turn me a into a killer? No, I found they hilariously bad and I still to this day have not killed anyone.
I have a VPN fro work, so I decided to log in with that, turned it on to USA and there you go, pornhub is available. Literally all I do is turn the VPN on and I'm past the block. There is always a way past these things, and I suspect if they clamp down on VPNs etc (which would be bad for a multitude of reasons UK politicians are too technologically inept to understand) people will just go to the dark web, so you can see where this is goin.
What do people in the UK think of this?
Do you fear using a porn site and the details being leaked in a hack? Are you gay and in the closet? Would you be happy that your details are logged looking at gay porn if there is a hack or data leak?
