Submitted 3 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkz3m3re1zo
Age check is very harming for your privacy. The whole EU want to go into this direction and it worries me a lot.
Just not pornhub but also social media sites etc. The reason why I don't like it at all is that you once again need to share data with parties you don't want to give them data. Especially not your passport.
It's a matter of time before data will be leaked online after a random data breach.
The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple “Is adult: yes/no” answer connected to a randomised ID from them.
Then there’s one failure point - the ‘trusted processor’. We need a trust free system.
I like how this approach gets called “okay on the privacy side” and just assumes you’re logged in to everything. In case you missed it, the subject matter here is browsing porn, a vast majority of people aren’t logging in at all with any service when they watch porn.
I’m glad to hear this. Some weeks ago I was pondering how to do age checks unanimously and this was pretty much the idea I came up with. It just makes a lot more sense because it does what you want without revealing anything private.
Yeah, bit annoyed that Bandcamp is now asking for ID. Just going to have to abandon it when it becomes mandatory
It’s almost like people are going on smaller sites that arnt covered by the online safety act and are alot more unregulated and sketchy and extreme
as someone who used to work in the adult entertainment industry years and years ago Manwin/Pornhub was always known as the “McDonalds of Porn”. You go there because you don’t know any better and just want a quick session.
If you want niche stuff, truly amateur stuff, you’ll go else where. So you’re not wrong, there are a lot more places that simply ignore these rules. For the vast majority as long as they’re following 2257 rules they couldn’t give a rats ass about any other countries rules. Why? because most of the big payment processors i.e. places like CCBill, are in the US so it’s more important to play by the US’ rules than anywhere else so Affiliates and what have you can continue to be paid.
i’ll have to find it, but there’s a fascinating journalistic podcast about how pornhub’s position as the tech giant of the porn industry happened effectively the same as every tech giant: not as a labor of love to advance something, but as a cold blooded disruption of a market to establish a new oligarchic overlord of a market sector. pornhub’s position as an invasive species in the sex work ecosystem has made sex work far less humane than it was before. moreover, sex workers, given their complete lack of societal protection given our legal criminalization of their profession, are more vulnerable to the whims of a modern robber baron
Interesting information, thank you for sharing
Based on 404media’s coverage of Girls Do Porn, I feel like PornHub can hardly be described as not being “unregulated and sketchy and extreme”.
Long story short, PornHub knowingly cooperating with a porn producer operating on the basis of institutionalized rape for years. Lots of women have committed suicide in the wake. The ringleader of the network PornHub cooperated with was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison. I’m of the personal belief that PornHub executives should have been brought in to keep him company—they are as guilty as anyone in this. I really doubt that Girls Do Porn is a unique story in anything else than the fact that it ended up before the courts.
That’s a very fair thing to bring up, I guess what I should have meant is pornhub is more regulated then other sites but I should of also still mentioned it’s sketchyness, thanks for mentioning this
That or using a VPN
Traffic, however, stayed the same.
I myself am a proud Canadian on the internet
Thats the goal. These weirdos passing the laws are anti porn, not pro child
It shows that to them cuz that 77% are actually using VPNs
Who’d have guessed that teens alone were keeping the porn industry alive?
/s right? Because it’s obvious people wont age verify for porn, when there’s a thousands alternatives.
I would think that the percentage of people who do not watch porn, but have access to it, is a very small number. This is about moral shame and control. Don’t buy into it…there is nothing morally wrong with masturbation. The sexual drive in an animal is natural. Let your freak flag fly.
Or torrents. If piracy’s on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.
Our moronic Ministers here need to be allowed to think that they’ve saved children and delivered another bullshit political pledge. Let’s keep our heads down about VPNs. I know they have them in their sights but tougher to deal with.
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
What’s the number on VPN purchases? 😅
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I do want to see if there was 77% increase next country over
Damage@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
I’m sure UK citizens can find porn without having to necessarily resort to VPNs, they just left Pornhub because they’re applying the laws
SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I can’t imagine the alternative be less stretchy compared to Pornhub, not that Pornhub isn’t a sketchy site in the first place
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
What I picture:
*Mullvad employee opens the company mailbox, and envelopes full of cash come pouring out.*
HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Anecdotally, ProtonVPN’s servers have had a jump in usage percentage since this shit started, particularly in the Netherlands.
casmael@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
The figure I remember was like +1600% but now I can’t remember if I’m making that up