UK porn site traffic tumbles following age gating rules

Figures reported by BBC News amusement that fashionable pornography websites are seeing acold less visitors from the UK since the state enforced mandatory property verification requirements for online platforms. Pornhub saw a 47 percent alteration successful UK postulation betwixt July 24th (a time earlier the age-gating rules came into effect) and August 8th, according to information from analytics steadfast Similarweb, losing much than a cardinal visitors successful 2 weeks.

XVideos besides saw a 47 percent driblet during the aforesaid period, portion UK postulation to OnlyFans declined by 10 percent. Similarweb information besides recovered that visits to immoderate smaller and little well-regulated pornography sites had accrued by comparison.

Most of the property verification systems implemented by online platforms are easy to bypass utilizing VPNs, however, which disguise the user’s determination utilizing overseas IP addresses. Proton VPN told The Verge that it saw a 1,800 percent summation successful regular sign-ups from UK-based users successful the 3 days pursuing the UK’s age-gating rules taking effect, and astatine the clip of writing, 3 retired of the apical 10 iOS apps successful the UK are presently for VPN services.