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Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:56AM (#45769794)
> Yes. That’s exactly what we believe.

So all minors in the UK have their own banking account and credit card? You know, to pay for the VPN.

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Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by Lio on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:57AM (#45769807)
Why would they need any of that when free to use VPNs exist?
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Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:44AM (#45780157)
Why do you think free to use VPNs exist when both servers and bandwidth costs money?
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Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by Thiez on Saturday November 01, 2025 @05:30AM (#45780353)
Fact is that they do exist. Whether that meshes with your personal beliefs about economics seems beside the point.
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Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t on Saturday November 01, 2025 @05:23PM (#45785519)
They exist because they are either proxying networks that resell residential IPs (aka your internet connection) ...or because they are harvesting credentials.

The former will now make less sense as a business model, since UK isn't a good location to proxy traffic through anymore.

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