Have devices do the blocking for kids by having sites required to identify themselves as adult oriented in a standard way. The bad sites aren’t going to enact the requirements for people to identify themselves any more than they would enact the requirements for sites to identify themselves to devices but it eliminates the tracking of adults and blocking of legitimate content to children with parental permission like sexual education sites by allowing exception lists for parents.
They already do flag themselves and have done for at least 20 years. But apparently most parents are dipshits who dont install content blockers.
Pornhub became boring as fuck. It looks like (not sure how it really is) they now host videos only from a dozen studios and the lack of diversity shows. Additional limits will kill it.
They were caught out hosting non-consential and underage material, and so made a blanket ban of any material other than verified creators.
Its because PH sanatized the site because of all the alleged pedophilia/ SA videos. i think some other sites have captured the old PH in various videos on thier categories. ironically, PH stored the tumbler after thier porn purge, and now PH purged thier own “unprofessional porn” largely is scattered in other obscure sites includes pirated some OF VIDEOS… Xvideo was the closest thing to orignal PH, and then theres others with some of the old PH videos.
Honestly, would you mind DMing some of the better sites you’ve found?
Do a search for tblop, you’ll get sites with lots of links.
Thank you!
Why is pornhub doing this all of a sudden? I thought they were against the digital ID bs. How is device-based age verification different?
How is device-based age verification different?
You put your device in child safety mode, and it tells sites “I’m a kid, treat me like a kid” – otherwise the site can assume you’re an adult with full rights. Done. No intrusive ID requirements. No face scanning. No third-party payment shakedowns. Parents, in theory, can still stop their five year olds from accidentally accessing PornHub or other content that would disturb them by just clicking a button when they set up an account on the device.
It’s, frankly, the sane way to do this if we’re going to have age restrictions.
Honestly, I don’t picture this happening. The main problem is parents parking their kids in front of screens or devices with internet access and then just bailing. Most devices have the means to do this and have so for a long time, it’s called “parental control”. It’s been a thing since the late 90s in my experience and probably earlier. The problem is it requires some time/effort to set up. I’m not advocating for the digital ID solution to this problem necessarily, just to be clear. However, even anti virus suites have this ability, routers have this ability, hell even browsers do if I recall but people and parents have been hands off about it.
Now they are complaining and expecting the entire internet to change or blaming online porn companies. The alternative is realising that letting kids have unfettered and unmonitored access to the internet, the place where you can easily view graphic footage of people dying, is actually a bad idea; bordering on neglect. Though this ignores places like Tik Tok, YouTube and a lot of social media marketing their platforms as “kid friendly” when they’re anything but, probably a different discussion however.
It’s already happening. California passed a law to require OS vendors and online services to support this functionality last month.
One state in the US but, fair enough. Though a lot of the wording for this seems account based, instead of an OS baked “kid mode”, which again just seems like a variation of parental control which already exists. The point is this problem already has a solution not being utilised by the majority of the world’s internet user base. This won’t fix parents just buying a device to palm off to their kids, because if setting up parental controls is beyond them, setting up an account for them properly likely will be too.
This won’t fix parents just buying a device to palm off to their kids, because if setting up parental controls is beyond them, setting up an account for them properly likely will be too.
Sure, but this limits companies liability if they make a good faith effort to comply; idiot parents being idiots and not setting up a kid’s account are no longer their problem, legally speaking, if they follow this law and respect age signals.
Mainstream adult sites carry a flag which trips content blockers. Have done for decades. Its all nonsense.
PH’s parent was one of the front running bids to operate the UK age verification scheme before it was abandoned.
