This would require “verified” operating systems: No alternative Android-based OSes. No Linux phone. Hell, no Linux desktop, or at least we would be stuck with a big-tech-built proprietary web browser.
This is a terrible idea.
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i am glad, however, that we’re not reshaping society in order to be more convenient customers for pornhub…
What constitutes a “verified” operating system?
Verified Operating System is the one where the manufacturer or OEM has built, installed, with a guarantee that it has not been tampered or rooted in any manner which can hinder DRM or any security guarantee it offers by default.
Think SafetyNet and verified boot on android, Or UEFI secure boot on windows.
Whatever Apple, Microsoft, and Google decide it does.
Whoever lobbies the govt the most to wrote the legislation
Well it requires a verified source for the data. I don’t see why it excludes open source at all.
Because of who decides how such verification gets built. Just look at what is happening with Android apps to know how big tech companies will handle it. https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
I kinda agree, but it doesn’t need to be verification. Just a standardised child account set for the OS that devices come with. Make it really fucking obvious when setting up a device too, parents can be morons so don’t give them that excuse.
Make it clear that the parents are responsible.
parents can be morons so don’t give them that excuse.
I promise you that they will still find a way to fuck it up. Badly.
Sure will. But it’s about setting expectations. Make sure society views the parents as responsible too because they clearly gave the kid unfiltered internet access.
Pornhub became boring as fuck. It looks like (not sure how it really is) they now host videos only from a dozen studios and the lack of diversity shows. Additional limits will kill it.
They were caught out hosting non-consential and underage material, and so made a blanket ban of any material other than verified creators.
Its because PH sanatized the site because of all the alleged pedophilia/ SA videos. i think some other sites have captured the old PH in various videos on thier categories. ironically, PH stored the tumbler after thier porn purge, and now PH purged thier own “unprofessional porn” largely is scattered in other obscure sites includes pirated some OF VIDEOS… Xvideo was the closest thing to orignal PH, and then theres others with some of the old PH videos.
Why is pornhub doing this all of a sudden? I thought they were against the digital ID bs. How is device-based age verification different?
How is device-based age verification different?
You put your device in child safety mode, and it tells sites “I’m a kid, treat me like a kid” – otherwise the site can assume you’re an adult with full rights. Done. No intrusive ID requirements. No face scanning. No third-party payment shakedowns. Parents, in theory, can still stop their five year olds from accidentally accessing PornHub or other content that would disturb them by just clicking a button when they set up an account on the device.
It’s, frankly, the sane way to do this if we’re going to have age restrictions.
Mainstream adult sites carry a flag which trips content blockers. Have done for decades. Its all nonsense.
They know that verification is happening as we shift rightwards, but instead of being the ones beholden to implement an age-verification system that puts them at risk, they want to have device manus do it, which would absolve PH from any responsibility. It’s a business move, on their part.
PH’s parent was one of the front running bids to operate the UK age verification scheme before it was abandoned.
Because they know the “party of anti-regulation/anti-nannie state” will never trust people to take care of themselves and someone will be forced to do it. They acknowledge either they will have to do a bunch of work and be liable when it fails, or some middle man will. So they choose the middle man.
Could this be a good thing, if you opt-in (aren’t required to do whatever verification your phone wants)? I would absutely never give my id to any porn site so if there were a secure way for my phone to say “yep, they are over the required age” then that could be an acceptable solution. If the phone doesn’t store your ID photo, that would be very good.
