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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn (www.404media.co)
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As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 127 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, a VPN is way cheaper than whatever hoops Idaho wants you to jump through to watch some 10/10 goth hottie get their ass eaten.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 87 points 4 days ago

Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago

I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.

[-] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

Interesting…all of it? I’m in Ontario but my hub/ISP is in Quebec so all my random advertising is in French.

Somehow it knows to target advertising to you in English…maybe you need to work on your privacy?

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I've got a lot of privacy stuff, but I also know that I'm being tracked. I'm not using the VPN for privacy though. I'm using it to watch porn, so I don't really care. If I did want privacy there's a lot of things I could improve, but I'm not that worried about it.

As for the targeted advertising, I don't see any of that. I wouldn't be surprised if that were in French but I wouldn't know.

[-] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah…I don’t really know what I’m talking about…it’s not like I make much of an effort for privacy. I’m guess it’s just my particular ISP. It’s like…the random advertising is in French…but if they know who I am it’s targeted…it’s mixed.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Languages accepted by the user is like the second header in http. It's in all your requests.

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