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Age verification doesn’t work

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134 points salutis | 7 comments | 05 Sep 25 06:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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nomilk ◴[05 Sep 25 07:06 UTC] No.45135766[source]▶
The choice citizens have now is between an 'internet licence' (submit ID's to myriad sites), or an 'internet tax' (VPN).

Super annoying!

Given Australia doesn't even require Age Verification on porn sites (only on social media sites), the incentives hint this was strongly supported by legacy media (90% of Aussie media is owned by two companies, Newscorp and Nine Entertainment).

The internet licence will make it difficult for both authors and readers on alternative media platforms. And it will outright prohibit young people from getting information from non-permitted sources (of course, legacy sources are not affected - incidentally, they're probably more harmful than the prohibited sources). (I've long said, to try to think clearly after watching 'the news' is akin to trying to operate heavy machinery after consuming alcohol).

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1. lordhumphrey ◴[05 Sep 25 08:33 UTC] No.45136314[source]▶
The 'internet tax' will not last, either, I fear.

Loads of VPNs are simply, someone other than the local ISP gets your data. Mullvad seems trustworthy, as an exception to this, and who else? And even then, Mullvad faces issues from websites and censorious countries trying to block it and bother its users all the time.

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2. littlecranky67 ◴[05 Sep 25 09:04 UTC] No.45136510[source]▶
Proton includes a VPN in their office365 competitor Proton Business Suite. While big sites like Netflix don't want you to use VPN, I am sure porn sites are very happy to let you through once your VPN address is not longer in a jurisdiction that requires AV.
3. Hizonner ◴[05 Sep 25 14:37 UTC] No.45139118[source]▶
... but I don't care if my ISP or the VPN knows I'm watching porn. I just want to actually be able to watch it.
4. ghssds ◴[05 Sep 25 23:42 UTC] No.45145031[source]▶
What about a VPS and ssh -D ?
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5. roygbiv2 ◴[06 Sep 25 03:46 UTC] No.45146430[source]▶
Where is your VPN hosted? A lot of sites will block vps hosts.
6. intothemild ◴[06 Sep 25 07:39 UTC] No.45147375[source]▶
Easily blockable. The early days of getting around Netflix was just using a commercial VPN. Then they blocked all those.

Then we transitioned to a VPS and hosting our own VPN.. then they blocked all VPS IP ranges.

What came next was VPNs that were using other people's home connections (either willingly or otherwise)

7. lordhumphrey ◴[06 Sep 25 12:18 UTC] No.45148624[source]▶
As the other replies allude to, it worked at one stage.

This subjective and lovely history of the Great Firewall of the PRC was posted recently, about the to and fros in the methods of this kind of thing, and is really very good, if you're interested:

https://danglingpointer.fun/posts/GFWHistory