and fuck the UK goverment
In this one instance I’ll give Reddit a pass. This is 100% a fuck the UK government moment
I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Abraxas@feddit.uk to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Lol yeah I’m not doing that. VPN all the way.
Today I’m french.
Tomorrow, who knows?
The possibilities are endless.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Too bad VPN server addresses are on-sight to reddit’s IP blocking strategy for years now. For whatever good internet choice you make, reddit reciprocates with an equally bad one
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s funny about that is the VPN I use I saw advertised on Reddit. I wonder if these companies know that they ban users for using their products? Well I guess they don’t really don’t care.
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Remember when you didn’t even need an email address to sign up for reddit?
If I need to look at that site, my LibRedirect extension sends me to a privacy focused mirror
athairmor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mullvad has couple of USA exits that don’t get blocked by Reddit. Texas and D.C., I think.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Blocking VPNs from posting or vviewing content too?
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I wonder if they pay per verification. If so, I wonder how hard it would be to set up a script to just keep submitting new requests a few hundred or thousands of times a day with random photos…
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Random AI photos. That would be funny in theory, but they’re just using AI to check the ages anyway.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Sure, it’s not about wasting their time; this says they’re using a 3rd party service to verify, so theoretically they’re paying for that service. It’s about wasting their money.
kautau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Was using a VPN to watch iPlayer last night and then hopped on reddit and was like “whereintheactualfuck is all the porn‽” Before realizing I had it set to the UK. Blew my mind for a minute
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I went “whereisallmyporn?” When reddit banned it from r/all. I think that was the start of its downfall for me.
oatscoop@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
I follow some writers on Reddit even after I deleted my account and had the same issue. The worst part is it’s no just porn: it’s anything “NSFW” – even mildly so. Posts that were tagged NSFW as a joke weren’t accessible.
I changed my VPN to another country and Reddit was still asking me to log in and show ID until I cleared my cookies and cache.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Fuck most governments
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
genuinely cannot think of a government that doesn’t suck ass
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not all around great but I think New Zealand has a pretty decent government
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The alternative is primitive tribes, I think we can make government work, it’s improved a fuckton in the last several centuries, but it takes a lot more involvement and a lot less apathy than people have been showing about the whole thing lately.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anyone try a McLovin ID?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
In this case I blame the UK government
Screw them and there authoritarian ways
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I blame all the people with “purity” kinks who took it so far they actually created movements and entire societies based around denying the most natural and harmless feelings we have as a species.
trk@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
If any service requires me to send a photo of myself to use it, I ain’t using it.
viking@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
It’s a UK law, you either comply or get banned. Obviously everybody now has a VPN subscription.
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Italy made VPNs practically illegal. The UK might soon follow. And surfing the web with a VPN is a painful torrent of capchas.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Facebook does that,
Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Youtube does that
Mothra@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Does a vpn bypass it?
Nester@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You can use a VPN to negate this check. For now…
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
But Spez will still edit your comments. I don’t know how reddit has still some users left after that and the API train wreck.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reddit blocks VPN users. I’m unable to access it on my home network because of it.
Which is great! They trained me not to bother going to their site by blocking my attempts. Though I kind of want to punch Snoo now, from having to see his smug face winking at me on the block page every time. Little fucker, you used to be cool. Enjoy the inevitable bot-pocalypse nazi farm you’re building.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
At one point Reddit had an Onion site
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They have to comply with local laws. (Fuck them anyway but for entirely different reasons, at least in this case they’re following the law.)
Who do we throw stones at boo mercilessly? Conservatism broadly, the kink-cult that makes everything about sex and denying sex while having the weirdest, worst sex behind the scenes. Making people scared of anything remotely sexual while also championing violence and hate.
LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dude I was recently visiting Florida. I totally forgot the fascist bullshit laws about porn there, was gobsmacked I couldn’t view pornhub. 5 minutes and a free vpn on my phone and I was happily watching my preferred smut.
It’s so stupid how pointless the laws are, like it’s dumb easy to circumvent them.
Just some real bullshit waste of time. Plus a waste of money for companies that try to comply with the Florida law. Pornhub just decided if you’re in Florida you can’t even use pornhub because they didn’t want to spend the money and time to comply with the stupid ass backwards law.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Estimate age from selfie”
fake beard sales dramatically increase
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Works in real life too. Grew a beard when i was 17, and never got carded for booze again after that.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone with long hair and a long beard I haven’t been carded in basically 10+ years.
Last weekend I got carded buying a beer with my parents-in-laws. Of course one of the very few times I didn’t have my ID.
Two 65+ people order a beer and then like, oh we’ll get your beer on our tab to make things easier. Bartender “I’ll need to see his ID”
We all couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t upset or anything, it was just kind of absurd feeling. I’ve been drinking for almost 20 years.
It’s one of those situations where common sense should be allowed to be used.
sylvieslayer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah how tf is that supposed work??
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Are there any women here today?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The stuffed bra has deferred many an ID check.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Damn, the website seems to be “with persona dot com” and holy fucking corpo.
I say we all stay off the corporate internet and just come to places like this. Usenet is still a thing, but it’s all us binary kids now. Maybe we could go back to how it was in the '90s and actually chat on the platform. There’s IRC instead of Discord, message boards instead of Facebook.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Usenet is still a thing, but it’s all us binary kids now. Maybe we could go back to how it was in the '90s and actually chat on the platform.
People stopped using Usenet for discussion in large part because of overwhelming spam problems and a lack of infrastructure to mitigate it.
You could maybe build some sort of system to mitigate that.
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Maybe automated text classification is good enough to do on a distributed level, on client machines, now. Problem is that automated text generation to try to defeat it has also probably improved, and I’d tend to bet on the spammers having the advantage.
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Maybe an out-of-band mechanism to generate information about posts would work. Have Usenet clients support pulling a database of scores for current posts in a group. Like, have some server(s) that generates various types of scores (advertising, flameware, etc) text scores for posts. Can incorporate various human moderation in that scoring, maybe let an end user subscribe to one or more “moderators”, which I understand BlueSky does something like.
Honestly, though, the Threadiverse mostly does what I want as a distributed discussion forum. I’m not sure what large benefits Usenet brings to the table relative to it.
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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
but it’s all us binary kids now.
It took me a second to realize what you meant. My first thought was, “Wait, like, binary genders? Cis-gendered people?” Then I remembered binary code exists and I laughed at myself.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
haha, yeah. Like that other poster said spam was running wild but all the old heads were blaming us “binary kids” for “killing usenet” with our large files.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Message boards are closing or blocking the UK because of this. We even lost lemmy.zip in the UK. But the way lemmy works means you could access it from other instances. Probably illegal in the UK but as long as people are ok with spinning up instances and telling the UK to get fucked it will probably be fine.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure Gen Z and Gen Alpha are not going to be using Facebook, Message boards or anything else from a previous era.
Chances are they will find simple and effective ways to bypass censorship.
Abraxas@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I heard about this but I didn’t really believe it, until now.
archchan@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Age verification is insane in it’s entirety and no payment processor, corpo, government, or think-tank has any right to enforce their puritanical views on sex and Orwellian techno-fascist policies on everyone.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Here’s an interesting point. I just went to an nsfw sub to see if I’d get that prompt, and it gives me two ways to verify - selfie or photo ID. The photo ID has to be “government issued”, and maybe I don’t have one of those. The selfie is a link for a phone, using a QR code and I don’t have a phone that can scan QR codes.
This means that in order to access said sub, I’d need to buy a new phone or wait 30 days or whatever to buy some kind of ID. Even with all the other reasons this sucks, that seems discriminatory.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t have a phone that can scan QR codes.
QR codes are a plain text encoding scheme. If you can screenshot it, you have access to FOSS software that can decode it, and you can paste that URL into your browser.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure, but the point is, they also could’ve posted a simple link, instead of expecting users like the above, to go thru hoops.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I know this, but it’s a barrier for anyone who doesn’t.
DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Damn. Did you find something else to jerk to my friend ? ( Shit no I don’t want you to jerk to my friend )
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Can’t even get porn models from civitai in a few hours it’s about to be blocked in the UK too.
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Try using old.reddit.com. Literally just replace
wwwwithold, or addoldin front ofreddit.com. This should take you to a version of reddit’s interface which isn’t complete trash and it usually also allows you to bypass the need to login for NSFW content.Iapetus@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I use rdx.overdevs.com for anything I need on reddit these days, it’s a read only interface that isn’t affiliated with the site and doesn’t track you or advertise anything.
burned_das_brot@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
NotMaster@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Once they figure that out they will no doubt get ride of old.reddit.com.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And once they do that, this place will get some new users. Guaranteed.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
And then you’ll need to use a VPN if you’re in the UK, which is recommended anyway.
Zephorah@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Reads like more material for the Palantir machine.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The world and the internet are so low on trust, I kind of wish there was some entity we trusted.
Some website where you could upload a photo, and people would actually know for sure that all the site is going to do is compare the photo to an ID, verify you’re over a certain age, and send a simple boolean “Yes” to the website that wanted to know if you were over-age. Or, to somehow know that your account is human and not a duplicate.
We could do a lot with that, but as it stands, no person or entity can ever really be trusted with that kind of data; I think most wouldn’t even trust the same governments that issue those IDs.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s simple, librarians or even gas station clerks look at your license and they give you a code that you can use idk 10 times for account signups.
No scanning or tracking of who is requesting. Just make it an ID check like buying cigarettes
Evotech@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The government already knows who you are! No need for a third party
Just give you a fucking oauth login and have websites use that for age checks.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
some entity we trusted.
We can trust each other, just takes a little chemical and/or psychological manipulation.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’d still be a joke to fool anyways
Old_Bald_Bloke@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Brit here, I say fuck the UK government
Fucking Red Tories
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What I don’t understand is that there are ways to prevent kids from looking at porn that don’t rely on crazy shit like this, even if they do involve some government action. Having to send a picture of your face to a porn provider to view porn is the dumbest possible way to fix this. I suspect the real reason for all of this is people want to effectively ban porn altogether and dumb fucks are letting them.
LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Yeah I hate this. Glad I’m not using it much anymore anyway but damnnnn. I’m convinced they’re rolling this out under the guise of child safety but with the profit motive of data harvesting for their donors
SleepyPie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unpopular opinion: this is a good thing - there should be more barriers to porn. I know some teens will find a way around it, but it has been proven to affect the developing brain negatively and normalizes some really harmful behaviour.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wear King Charles mask and take a selfie.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
It is fucking mental that an industry plagued by data harvesting is being asked to harvest more data.
Anyway, I’m now in Belgium according to my VPN.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What happens if everyone just uploads the same 1 photo/ID?
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What’s preventing you from uploading a random photo?
rozodru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
just use one of the libreddits like safereddit.com or something, never go to actual reddit.
also…I had to turn off my VPN to post here? it woudn’t let me post with my mullvad VPN on…wtf?
stoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Does this get enforces with old.reddit.com?
ramenbelly@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
FUCK THAT NOISE WTFFFFF give me 2015 back
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
That is, I believe, a British law that they’re following for users that appear to be in the UK. Not like they’re going to just disregard the law.
searches
Yeah, the Online Safety Act 2023.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
Probably should be mostly irritated with Parliament.
I expect that using a VPN that terminates in another country will avoid it, though I bet that then you can’t do things like buy Reddit Gold, if that’s still a thing.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’d add that if you pick Ireland as the exit country, it will have notable benefits:
Sites that pick language based on IP will probably do English.
It probably won’t add much latency.
Ireland isn’t too bonkers and hopefully won’t have any online laws of their own that become an irritant.
Because Ireland has a considerably smaller population than the UK, if people in the UK do this at scale for pornography, it will make the Irish statistically look like absolutely indefatigable horndogs, which I think will be pretty funny on visualizations.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Indefatigable horndogs best band name calling dibs now
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What did you think that “wild rover” they keep singing about was? 😉
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Pornhub stats: Irish +28572%
lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you don’t mind my hijacking, I’ve seen the term “kagis” used a number of times on Lemmy, possibly only by you but I think also others. Based on the usage, I assumed it was a Latin word to indicate some sort of transition or side-bar, but it seems to just translate to “you are”, which doesn’t make sense in context. Can I ask what it means?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Kati is a new-ish search engine that is popular among Lemmy users. Those users are trying to get it to catch on, and have started using kagi as a verb, the same way people say “let me google that really quick.”
It honestly feels a lot like when Microsoft was trying to get Bing and their phone OS to take off, and started slipping product placement into popular TV shows. There was a brief time period in American TV, where characters had the disgusting line of “Bing it!” Usually while showing the Bing home page on a Microsoft Phone. It was just blatant ham-fisted cringey product placement.
Maven@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There’s a search engine named Kagi. It’s basically the equivalent of “googles” but for a different search engine.
pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
kagi.com
pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
kagi.com
madjo@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Upvote for the verbification of Kagi :)