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Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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Have devices do the blocking for kids by having sites required to identify themselves as adult oriented in a standard way. The bad sites aren't going to enact the requirements for people to identify themselves any more than they would enact the requirements for sites to identify themselves to devices but it eliminates the tracking of adults and blocking of legitimate content to children with parental permission like sexual education sites by allowing exception lists for parents.
They already do flag themselves and have done for at least 20 years. But apparently most parents are dipshits who dont install content blockers.
Is this right? Out of curiosity, how do these sites flag themselves as content for adults?
Obviously, this is the solution. Sites that do this correctly, and software that detects the metadata. Parents are the ones that need to choose the correct software and enable the correct settings.
Sites that do not set the correct metadata are legible to be banned by authorities.
It’s called RTA and it’s a tag that goes in the header of each html page to be restricted. All “mainstream” US adult operators back the scheme as a sort of self-regulation.