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Discord’s UK age-verification thwarted by ‘Death Stranding’ photo mode

Discord’s UK age-verification thwarted by ‘Death Stranding’ photo mode

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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UK’s New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable

UK’s New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable

Earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s age assurance requirement for sites that publish pornographic material went into effect, which has resulted in everything from Pornhub to Reddit and Discord displaying an age verification panel when users attempt to visit. There’s just one little problem. As The Verge notes, all it takes to defeat the age-gating is a VPN, and those …

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