Matty wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 10:37 pm
Recommendation - ProtonVPN is absolutely free and very well respected with your data; they don't log anything. Only a few free servers though, and in the last week they've been under a bit of pressure
I thought the agreement we weren't in scope and/or too small to be on the radar?
Opera worked my ‘test’
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:40 pm
by Gavster
How old was @Mito Man when he started posting
I have to declare that my YouTube content is NOT made for kids every time I upload. Even though it could be arguably eduational in some respects, it causes all kinds of other issues so not worth it.
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:37 pm
by Mito Man
I was 17. Not really following this whole topic much. Was the EVO forum a secret porn site that I should not have been admitted in?
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:41 pm
by Matty
Reminds me of the Silicon Valley "COPPA" violation
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2025 11:22 pm
by KiwiDave
Beany wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 5:53 pm
I ... could drink, certainly.
You're Scottish, you started drinking with whisky in your bottle as a baby and never stopped.
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 6:29 am
by Jobbo
Mito Man wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:37 pm
I was 17. Not really following this whole topic much. Was the EVO forum a secret porn site that I should not have been admitted in?
PWIG and DTEN were under 18 too; only one of them is still here but he was once a child.
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 7:15 am
by Marv
I think the original forum goes back to either 1998 or 1999, so I would have been 18/19 when I joined.
There was a forum member back in the very early days, who posted some links to a site which today would definitely would require this forum to need to be covered by the online safety bill (and the forum was so unmoderated by the magazine, the posts/links didn't even get removed!)
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 7:22 am
by Rich B
Marv wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 7:15 am
I think the original forum goes back to either 1998 or 1999, so I would have been 18/19 when I joined.
There was a forum member back in the very early days, who posted some links to a site which today would definitely would require this forum to need to be covered by the online safety bill (and the forum was so unmoderated by the magazine, the posts/links didn't even get removed!)
Yep, Gavster’s links were definitely on the more “niche” end of the porn spectrum…!
Marv wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 7:15 am
I think the original forum goes back to either 1998 or 1999, so I would have been 18/19 when I joined.
There was a forum member back in the very early days, who posted some links to a site which today would definitely would require this forum to need to be covered by the online safety bill (and the forum was so unmoderated by the magazine, the posts/links didn't even get removed!)
Yep, Gavster’s links were definitely on the more “niche” end of the porn spectrum…!
Yes, I remember one in particular - not sure if I clicked any more after that
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 9:28 am
by scotta
Many years ago to teach people a lesson on not leaving their computer unlocked one of the guys I worked with would set the browser homepage to a lovely website for excrement fetish.
It was a great lesson in security. You didn’t fucking do it again.
I can imagine the list of HR offences that would gather these days.
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 9:40 am
by dinny_g
Harsh Scotta...
I would just e-mail the team from the offending machine and offer to buy everyone breakfast on Friday in the canteen...
Marv wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 7:15 am
I think the original forum goes back to either 1998 or 1999, so I would have been 18/19 when I joined.
There was a forum member back in the very early days, who posted some links to a site which today would definitely would require this forum to need to be covered by the online safety bill (and the forum was so unmoderated by the magazine, the posts/links didn't even get removed!)
Yep, Gavster’s links were definitely on the more “niche” end of the porn spectrum…!
Yes, I remember one in particular - not sure if I clicked any more after that
i think we all remember that one…
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 10:52 am
by Explosive Newt
I was 14 when I joined the original blue forum.
Jesus Christ I am old.
I should have invested in VPN companies... who in their right minds is uploading their drivers licence to pornhub?? Let alone the, ahem, more niche websites some forumites might frequent, claiming immunity from prosecution as it was legal in the country in which it was filmed?
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 10:58 am
by Swervin_Mervin
Labour Minister giving Farage more material to beat (steady) them with.
They really are monumentally thick these people, aren't they?
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 11:18 am
by unzippy
Marv wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 7:15 am
I think the original forum goes back to either 1998 or 1999, so I would have been 18/19 when I joined.
There was a forum member back in the very early days, who posted some links to a site which today would definitely would require this forum to need to be covered by the online safety bill (and the forum was so unmoderated by the magazine, the posts/links didn't even get removed!)
Badly Packed Kebab TM MN (AngryBeats)
Re: 18+ Sites and ID Checks
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:50 am
by Ascender
Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 10:58 am
Labour Minister giving Farage more material to beat (steady) them with.
They really are monumentally thick these people, aren't they?
That's insane. What normal person comes out with that sort of hyperbolic distasteful nonsense?
He doubled down on it a couple of days ago. Effectively telling the UK public in an interview with the BBC not to use VPNs and you'll save children's lives.
