As everyone predicted, the UK’s dumb age verification laws are a total farce.
Designed in attempts to “protect children,” the UK’s now notorious age verification laws are supposedly designed to prevent underaged users from accessing adult content. In practice, they’ve unleashed a multi-pronged privacy nightmare. Major websites like Imgur are now blocked entirely in the UK, reducing the functionality of sites like reddit and Steam. And furthermore, the laws aren’t even able to “protect muh kids” because…
