France to introduce controversial age verification system for adult websites

Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by rapnie on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:19AM (#23790338)

It is so easy to encounter it, even accidentally. Things have improved a bit, but 3 yrs ago when I switched to DDG almost any image search with SafeSearch=off came with sudden unexpected nude or porn pics on page 2 or 3 almost regardless of the search term.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by randomchars on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:20AM (#23790746)

You mean you turned the safe search feature off, and you got unsafe results?

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by rapnie on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:45AM (#23790919)

Sure, what can you expect, right? Imo not that any unrelated search yields porn. With google this never happened (actually I can't remember ever seeing porn images unexpectedly in ggl image search where I also had safe search off). It held me back recommending DDG to others. Though, as I said, things have improved a bit nowadays, and it happens less often.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by mrep on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:54PM (#23794285)

I think I read it here on HN that google has/had an entire team dedicated to making sure you never ever got porn unless you were very specifically searching for it.

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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by kazagistar on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:06PM (#23793680)

Try googling "index of".

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