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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.495s | source
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amiga386 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44571961[source]▶
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you.

You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state wants to ban.

And you can access the porn on Reddit and Twitter (though in some cases you'll have to make an account). And of course the "tube" sites work fine.

After you've done that, as a UK citizen, please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 and ask the government to repeal their awful law.

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1. ge96 ◴[15 Jul 25 21:46 UTC] No.44576145[source]▶
Funny in a US state I'm finding more and more places are popping up with an age verification. Doesn't really bother me so much content out there but yeah.

It's weird too how I don't want to prove my age, guess it's the taboo aspect of it vs. say showing your id at a bar.

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2. hellojesus ◴[16 Jul 25 05:05 UTC] No.44578851[source]▶
Bars usually don't write down your data or associate every movement you make while there with your id, so it's definitely more risky than the traditional meatspace verification process.

Part of the issue is that for my entire life, age was either not enforced or a promise. It feels wrong having gates up where they previously didn't exist.

I get it; I wandered into gay porn sites and irc chats when I was in the 4th grade back in the 90s, and my friends and I loved chatting up those interested in our pre-teenage selves at the time. But I still will never provide a legit id for any age restricted services. Though I do have fakes for non us based companies to deal with financial kyc but haven't used them in some time (years), so no idea if they would work in the days of oligarchic identity management saas.