They know that verification is happening as we shift rightwards, but instead of being the ones beholden to implement an age-verification system that puts them at risk, they want to have device manus do it, which would absolve PH from any responsibility. It’s a business move, on their part.
Comment on Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification
SpaceXplorer_8042@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
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?
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 22 hours ago
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Because they know the “party of anti-regulation/anti-nannie state” will never trust people to police themselves. They acknowledge either they will have to do a bunch of work and be liable when it fails, or some middle man will. So they choose the middle man.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 day ago
Because if they don’t do something like this they’re going to lose a massive amount of their user base. If something like this doesn’t happen then it’s id verification, and it’s pretty clear republicans want that nationwide, and UK proves that other countries also want it. This would provide a format to say “I’m over 18 let me in” without needing to provide an id, and so most of their users could still enjoy privately. Decent compromise imo
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
PH’s parent was one of the front running bids to operate the UK age verification scheme before it was abandoned.
e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 day ago
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.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Mainstream adult sites carry a flag which trips content blockers. Have done for decades. Its all nonsense.