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Use of VPNs to bypass age checks on porn sites to be investigated by Australia’s eSafety watchdog (www.theguardian.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1256060/use-of-vpns-to-bypass-age-checks-on-porn-sites-to-be-investigated-by-australias-esafety

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[–] tremble5218@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

The converse of that is also true where legitimate websites mark your order as fraud just because you used a VPN when placing the order.