the SOY gmod method vs the CHAD fake mustache
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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As I understand it, most adult content producers aren't actually interested in having minors using their sites. It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to have them add some "Adult Material" flag in their metadata, and let consumers respond as they wish to that tag - whether that's done through browser settings, router nannyware, or whatever.
Is there a technical reason this isn't what's being pushed for? I'm sure there's lobbying and "optics" reasons for not doing this, but is there any practical reason for not pursuing this, or something like it?
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A freshly-washed face is the new wiped browser history.
I heard three kids where able to use a trenchcoat to bypass it!
There's always an analog loop to curb censorship. It's just a waste of money.
Not for the people pushing for this Orwellian shit.
Most people will just comply, and "most people" is who they want to spy on and control.
The Internet views censorship as a fault and will re-route around it.
we need to go back to the tried and true method of a calendar field to prove age. i know that kept me out of all the dirty sites back when i was born in 1979 through 84.
Anyone know the best way to fool these age verification tools? I've got some Discord servers with channels that are marked as NSFW mainly out of an abundance of caution, despite mainly just being open to rude language. And others where it's just slightly spicy memes.
I am old enough, I just don't want to give my real face or ID to Discord or their chosen third parties. I don't trust them. Have tried pointing OBS at videos of people staring straight at the screen, but those don't quite seem to work.
Don't use discord? Problem solved.
And I really am serious. We need to move away from platforms we have no control over and contribute to the problem.
We probably shouldn't be using Discord but you've got to meet people where they're at. Telling someone to just drop a service when all of their connections are there is unhelpful at best.
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Well, there's always the ancient method that teens used to get their hands on alcohol when I was that age: pay someone who's down on their luck for ten minutes of their time.
That feels kinda gross and exploitative. Because it's not like alcohol. This is something I very well could do myself, but refuse to do on principle, because I don't want to hand over personal data like that. Paying someone else to hand over their data feels gross.
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