Let's hope that new EU age verification system is actually good and privacy friendly.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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Well done, you've used moral panic to control your media.
Dark futures aside, why do I think that folks are just going to VPN their way in?
I'm glad they aren't just nuking every sexy mod from the site and chose to comply instead.
Loverslab would've crashed from all the sign ups lol.
Can I get mods there?
Yeah, the kinky kind.
I miss the internet being a wild west.
It certainly had its downsides, but it felt a lot better than the nonsense that's been happening over the past decade+.
Yeah, but once money got involved we had to start making regulations
It sucks that they have to do this. But I prefer this than to simply lock out users from the affected countries.
(Looking at steam here, not bothering to create age verification, which in turn means in some coubtries some games are not visible at all)
In NL it is so stupid, I am legally allowed to verify my age and gamble, but opening loot boxes no way.
Worst part is that loot boxes aren't even defined as gambling yet ...