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Re:UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs by chrisjj on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:34AM (#46777633)
I meant VPN providers offer VPS as a substitute.

I think they would include AWS and the pushback would be ineffective. Many AWS users could be immediately age-verified by existing payment card info.

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Re:UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs by melevittfl on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:51AM (#46780725)
By VPS, I mean a generic compute instance that can run whatever you want. Like a Linux instance. I'm not sure what you mean by "VPN providers offer VPS as a substitute" in that context.

Paying by card isn't enough to verify age. They'd have to specifically verify via passport or other ID.

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Re:UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs by chrisjj on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:03AM (#46794257)
> Paying by card isn't enough to verify age.

It is in UK.

Ofcom, the media regulator, has set out a number of ways websites can verify the age of users, external, including through credit card checks ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k81lj8nvpo

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