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Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates (arstechnica.com)
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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago

But overall, enforcement causes nearly half of users to stop searching for popular adult sites complying with laws and instead search for a noncompliant rival (48 percent) or virtual private network (VPN) services (34 percent), which are used to mask a location and circumvent age checks on preferred sites, the study found.

what a fucking surprise. now the teens only watch porn that is already skirting around laws just by virtue of existing. truly nobody could've ever imagined this would happen

jesus christ i'm so tired of stupid politicians

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 60 points 2 days ago

"a world in which some kids are likely to be harmed by the laws designed to protect them."

These laws are 100% not designed to protect them.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn't age so well.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

D works well. Being dead puts you in a decent "no one to fool with" category.

Fucker cant even do a prat fall at this point.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

Also wouldn't work with the internet.

I remember being very frustrated by this particular implementation.

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Strange headline to say that credit card payments as age gates are trending again. Reddit has nothing to do with it.

[–] Saucepain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Stranger still to make the headline about one small paragraph in the middle of the piece that was clearly an aside.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

The 90's kids who bypass the old rules are the same ones trying to implement new rules.

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

kids had to swipe their parents' credit cards or find a fraudulent number online to access adult content on the web.

Umm no they didnt. Free porn was a thing even in the 90s, and some porn sites used 900 numbers you had to dial into and pay by the minute on your phone bill.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person who remembers top sites. Like sites where you went to get straight up pirated material for the purposes of making bootlegs etc.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

No

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 days ago

Rollerblades?