The European Commission preliminarily found Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to protect minors from being exposed to pornographic content on their services.

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    It’s mostly just that I don’t want the government to know precisely which websites I visit. Nor do I want the the porn sites to know exactly who I am.

    Let me have my privacy. I’ve been watching porn since I was 12 or 13 and absolutely would’ve figured out a way to do it even if there’d been age restrictions because I was horny af. Nothing bad has happened to me because of it. Perhaps a mild addiction to masturbation unless I’m having sex but that hurts literally nobody. Worse case scenario I last a little too long occasionally.

    Block pornhub and teens will find much seedier sites.

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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      1 hour ago

      It’s mostly just that I don’t want the government to know precisely which websites I visit. Nor do I want the the porn sites to know exactly who I am.

      I understand, I want that too. It’s easily possible though (just one example for a scheme):

      • you visit porn site
      • porn site sends your browser a random nonce
      • you/browser tell government service: sign this if I’m >18
      • government signs the nonce + a timstamp to prove freshness
      • your browser forwards the result to the porn site
      • porn site can verify signature per standard public certificate chains
      • now porn site has proof that you are >18, but knows nothing else about you; and government only knows that you wanted proof that you are an adult, but not for what site or purpose you wanted to prove that

      Alternatively, if we go the “device has an age bracket field browsers access” route, it’s even simpler, and just as if not more privacy preserving.