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Originally Posted by Holy Damage
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I think most people would verify their ID only once. Let's say a UK user goes to Pornhub and gets presented with MindGeek's solution and goes to the trouble of verifying his age, and the next time he goes to another site that uses some other company, he will most likely say "fuck it I'm not going through this again", and he will just go back to Pornhub (or any other site that uses MindGeek's solution).
MindGeek has so much traffic themselves and has a solution ready to put live on all their high traffic properties as soon as the requirements go in effect, so I think if you will use another solution the chance that the user already verified through MindGeek's solution and doesn't want to go through verification again and leaves your site is pretty big.
I think the other solutions only have a chance if they get some huge sites to use them and start verifying users before MG starts.
On the other hand, it is not even announced yet how the age verification should work exactly, sho who knows
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...porn-websites/
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The Government has delayed plans to introduce age checks on pornography websites amid fears they could be watered down.
Adult websites were due to verify that visitors are over 18 from next month, under laws set out in last year’s Digital Economy Act. However, the newly-appointed regulator, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), is yet to reveal how the checks should work.
Over the weekend the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said it now hoped the measures would be in place by the end of the year.
It added that the guidelines will be subject to a consultation and must be voted on by MPs, raising the possibility they could be challenged by opponents of the measures.
A DCMS spokesman said: "We are making age verification compulsory for commercial porn sites, as part of our work to make the internet a safer place for children. But we need to take the time to make sure we get it right if it's going to work, and it will come into effect later this year."
The BBFC is set to announce its guidelines, such as what methods can be used to prove somebody’s age, in the coming weeks. They will then be consulted on and must be approved by parliament. They will then not come into force for at least three months later, which the Government said could take until the end of the year.
Pornography websites that fail to introduce the checks face being blocked by broadband providers.
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