Aylo has started blocking unregistered users from accessing some of its porn sites in Australia, ahead of the country’s new, tougher age verification rules coming into effect on March 9, 2026.
Australia-based users attempting to access RedTube, YouPorn and Tube8, all owned by Aylo, have been met with a message stating that the site is “not currently accepting new account registrations in your region”.
This mirrors Aylo recently only allowing registered users of its porn sites to access the sites in the UK, following similarly tougher age verification rules being introduced there.
From March 9, porn sites must take “appropriate age-assurance measures” when allowing access to their sites in Australia. The country’s online safety regulator, eSafety, has said that this can be done through methods such as submitting photo ID, face scans, credit card checks and using third-party age-assurance tools.
Aylos said that its sites would be “restricting access to adult material before the deadline on March 9th.”
The company added: “Australia is following a similar approach to the UK, which all our evidence shows does not effectively protect minors, and instead creates harms relating to data privacy and exposure to illegal content on non-compliant platforms.”
According to eSafety’s rules, porn site companies must “minimise the collection of personal information” when verifying users’ ages. Search engines and porn providers that don’t comply with new age verification standards face fines of up to AUS $49.5 million (US $35 million) for each breach.
Pornhub, the biggest porn site in the world and another Aylo site, was accessible to non-registered Pornhub users in Australia as of March 6. This is expected to change by the March 9 deadline.
Aylo has been campaigning to encourage governments and tech firms to promote age verification on devices rather than on sites.
The company has blocked access to its porn sites in many US states following new age verification laws kicking in, and claimed that Pornhub traffic in the UK dropped by 77 percent following UK age verification rules toughening in July 2025.
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