The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.
  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    This is a clever way to bypass. If they get wise and somehow filter out Sam Porter Bridges’ face, you could always fire up any of the games of comparable visual realism which let you design your own character’s appearance.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Just get an AI to generate a face. If it’s prepared to accept photos from video games and it’ll probably accept AI generated images.

      Not really that I expected competence.

  • themakara@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    To be fair, the game’s rated 18+ in the UK. In terms of the law, this probably doesn’t suffice. But theoretically, there still is a kind of age-check in place :'D

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    This age verification thing is so stupid but it’s good to know it can be bypassed this easily!! not gonna dox myself I care about my privacy 🤘 hope enough people rebel against this measure gets overturned bc it shows this country doesn’t care about people’s privacy online which is ironic considering the name

  • Quicky@piefed.socialEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere and it seems like the least intrusive suggestion to me - why not simply use the device as the age verification. Almost every phone/tablet/computer already knows your age through it’s own sign-up/activation method, so why not allow the device to offer an API that provides age verification to sites that require it.

    It could simply be a permissions-based answer where an adult site requests a yes/no answer to the question “is this user an adult” from the device and the user is prompted to provide the permissions for the site to have that data.

    This would solve the problem for the vast majority of iphone/android/windows/macos consumers.