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UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

2025-08-19  Ian Fleming

Some crafty gamers discovered they could use the photo mode in Death Stranding to trick age verification systems on Reddit and Discord. Most, though, are simply turning to virtual private networks (VPNs), which reroute internet traffic through servers in other countries and hide a user’s real IP address. That makes it easy to get around the age verification requirements. Interest in VPNs spiked in the UK the week after the laws took effect on July 21, according to Google Trends. Now, one official is pushing to close the VPN workaround.


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