Comment by PaulKeeble
8 days ago
A lot of people are going to be putting their ID details into all sorts of websites and giving this to all sorts of third parties because of this law. Its going to cause a huge increase in ID related theft and fraud in the coming years and its not even going to achieve its stated goal. Worse is its blocking sites it really shouldn't, wikipedia is fighting this in court at the moment because they want to censor it!
This is terrible legislation, there is a petition that has reached 350k already to repeal it. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
I've tried accessing one of the most famous porn sites, and I was asked to verify my age by giving either credit card details or bank details to a 3rd party company registered in Cyprus. Lol.
I'm temporarily living and working in UK, and I'm amazed how once big empire turns to a third-world country so easily.
This. Even sites who don't want to store IDs because they are small or it's against their ethos have to do it or pack their bags
There is definitely some questionable VPN providers.