US EditionPornhub Exits France, Its Second-Biggest Market, over Age Verification Law
- Aylo, owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, suspended access to these adult platforms in France on Wednesday due to new age verification laws.
- This suspension followed Paris introducing requirements this year for adult sites to verify users' ages using credit cards or ID documents.
- Aylo criticized the law as privacy-infringing and ineffective, showing a message with Delacroix’s 'Liberty leading the people' to the French public instead of adult content.
- Solomon Friedman explained that Aylo is reaching out to the French public to highlight the risks associated with the French law, emphasizing its potential threats to privacy and its overall ineffectiveness.
- Aylo’s action suggests the need to rely on operating system-level age verification like those by Google, Apple, and Microsoft, rather than site-by-site methods that risk privacy.
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The erotic side of Pornhub and Youporn remain blocked in Germany. This is now confirmed by the Bavarian Administrative Court. This has been preceded by a year-long dispute over a lack of protection for minors.
Pornhub Exits Its Second-Biggest Market
French visitors to Pornhub and other major porn sites are being greeted with the famous painting "Liberty Leading the People" instead of adult content. The site's parent company Aylo has stopped operating in France—Pornhub's second-largest market, after the US—to protest a new French law requiring more stringent age...
Faced with the blocking of the main pornographic sites in France, netizens seem determined to circumvent the restrictions: VPNs are booming.
After Pornhub left France, this VPN saw a 1,000% surge in signups in 30 minutes
A popular VPN service reported a 1,000% increase in registrations just 30 minutes after Pornhub blocked access in France this week. The adult site reportedly exited its second-biggest market on June 4 because of a new French age-verification law, per Mashable's Anna Iovine."5PM - PornHub blocks France from accessing its website," Proton VPN tweeted Wednesday. "5.30PM - @ProtonVPN registrations increase by 1,000%[.] For context, this is more than…
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