The chance to speak with Hideo Kojima is not totally unlike meeting a world leader. Alternately — extending this metaphor another way — talking to him while activity at Kojima Productions buzzes in the background over a video interview suggests having a peek inside a spy agency. The video game auteur, whose Tokyo studio is visited by everybody from Conan …
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Users have already found a workaround to bypass the UK Online Safety Act’s new age verification system. According to PC Gamer, it only took 24 hours after the law went into effect for someone to get past the age requirement on Discord. All they needed was a little help from the video game Death Stranding. X user DanySterkov discovered that …
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Gamers in the United Kingdom have found a surprisingly simple way to bypass online age verification checks now required by law on some websites using just a video game. An X user named Dany Sterkhov appears to be the first to discover the hack. On July 25, he posted that he had bypassed Discord’s age verification check using the photo …
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Viewing adult content now requires age verification within the United Kingdom. The UK’s Online Safety Act went into effect late last week, causing many to see prompts to scan their own face or scan an ID. Several popular websites began preparing for the age verification requirement earlier this month, including Reddit. But with the Online Safety Act enacted and being …
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The UK have put in place an age restriction gate on several online platforms, barring access to adult-oriented sites unless users present a picture of themselves that proves they’re of age. Reception to this change has certainly been mixed from UK residents, with people generally being frustrated by the barrier of having to do face ID every time they want …
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Cutting corners: When the United Kingdom began strictly enforcing age verification rules on all adult websites, many predicted a spike in VPN usage – and provider Proton now has the data to prove it. But another unusual and amusing workaround has also emerged. Proton VPN reported a 1,400% increase in logins from the UK on Friday. The company attributed the …
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