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- europe@feddit.org
Aylo, the company that owns porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, is planning to suspend service in France in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors. The deadline for porn sites to implement age verification is June 7 but Pornhub will block users starting Wednesday, June 4, according to France24.
Websites will be required to verify a user’s age using a credit card or a government-issued ID document. France’s law requires porn companies to provide an option for age verification that relies on a third party, hypothetically protecting the user’s privacy. But Aylo has argued that third-party verification puts private information at risk of hacks and leaks.
XVideos will be used more.
Pornhub seems to be the sacrificial site so all the other MindGeek sites can keep going.
I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos