VPN downloads spike every time a new porn age verification law lands. States like Utah and Ohio are now writing anti-VPN language directly into legislation, but forcing users off VPNs means forcing them into third-party ID tools with their own serious security problems.
VPN downloads spike every time a new porn age verification law lands. States like Utah and Ohio are now writing anti-VPN language directly into legislation, but forcing users off VPNs means forcing them into third-party ID tools with their own serious security problems.
Pornhub has announced that the site is set to be blocked in five further US states in summer 2024, due to new age verification rules, having already been blocked in a plethora of states over the past few years. Aylo, Pornhub’s parent company, announced that from July 1 the site will be blocked in Indiana, […]
Italy is set to begin enforcing a new rule compelling all phone providers in the country to install porn-blocking filters on phones registered to minors. It’s the latest online age verification initiative to be implemented in Europe, where porn sites are coming under increased scrutiny by authorities concerned about children accessing them. From today (November […]
The most popular Android porn-blocking parental control apps routinely mistakenly block US and UK government-approved sexual health and LGBT+ websites, according to new research. A virtual private network (VPN) company tested 12 of the most popular site-blocking parental control apps on the Google Play Store. It found that all but one of the 12 apps […]
This week, the Thai government banned 190 pornographic websites, including Pornhub, under the guise of a cybercrime law called the Computer Crime Act, on the assertion that these sites violate Article 14(4) of obscenity and inappropriate content. Considering the country was in the Pornhub’s top 20 countries for traffic in the company’s 2019 insights, and […]
Utah, Ohio, and Washington are moving to close the VPN loophole in porn age verification. The privacy tradeoffs are significant and enforcement is unproven.
Pornhub users in Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska will be blocked from accessing the site from July 1, taking the total number of states to 13.
Italy is set to start enforcing rules on preventing anyone under the age of 18 from accessing adult (or extremist) material online via a SIM block from today.
As of November 2, the Thai government banned 190 pornographic websites, including Pornhub under regulations of a cybercrime law called the Computer Crime Act.
This week, seven (yes – SEVEN) VPNs based in Hong Kong were found to be logging customer data in an unsecure server, rather defeating the point of the service.
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