Pornhub blocks access to users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which recently passed laws requiring consumer age verification to access the adult website. One such law went into effect in Louisiana earlier this year. To comply, Pornhub asked users to verify their age with the LA Wallet application, a digital wallet that serves as a platform for, among other things, Louisiana state driver’s licenses.
“Since this incident, site traffic in Louisiana has dropped by approximately 80%,” Pornhub said in a statement. These guys didn’t suppress their urge to watch porn. They’ll simply move to other corners of the internet that don’t verify age, don’t follow the law, don’t take user safety seriously, and often don’t even moderate the content. ,
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Privacy advocates on the web have long criticized these age controls, which require users to share personal information such as their government IDs in order to gain access to the service they want. It is not uncommon for hackers to infiltrate the database, which really calls into question the security of these age verification tools. Such laws are becoming more prevalent, with similar legislation coming into effect in Texas and Montana by 2024.
Instead of using age verification in the affected states, Pornhub took a different approach, banning access from those states altogether. If you try to navigate on Pornhub to states like Mississippi, Virginia or Utah, you will see adult movie stars cherry devil (In an informative video, without any sexual overtones) Explain the risks involved in these tests. “While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, providing your ID every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for the safety of our users and, in fact, could put children and your privacy at risk. Will put in in danger,” says the Devil.