Figures reported by BBC News present that widespread pornography web sites are seeing far fewer guests from the UK for the reason that nation enforced necessary age verification necessities for on-line platforms. Pornhub noticed a 47 p.c lower in UK visitors between July twenty fourth (a day earlier than the age-gating guidelines got here into impact) and August eighth, in keeping with knowledge from analytics agency Similarweb, shedding greater than one million guests in two weeks.
XVideos additionally noticed a 47 p.c drop throughout the identical interval, whereas UK visitors to OnlyFans declined by 10 p.c. Similarweb knowledge additionally discovered that visits to some smaller and fewer well-regulated pornography websites had elevated by comparability.
A lot of the age verification programs applied by on-line platforms are simple to bypass utilizing VPNs, nonetheless, which masks the consumer’s location utilizing abroad IP addresses. Proton VPN informed The Verge that it noticed a 1,800 p.c enhance in each day sign-ups from UK-based customers within the three days following the UK’s age-gating guidelines taking impact, and on the time of writing, three out of the highest ten iOS apps within the UK are at present for VPN companies.