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Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by pjc50 »

pyuser583 wrote: post #24

I'm a parent, and I try to keep my kids from the Internet in general, but adult parts in particular. VPN's are great for this. Just install the VPN, have it block access to adult sites, and have it alert me of any suspicious attempts. It's bewildering how VPN companies have branded their technology as "anti-censorship" and "privacy-focused." VPN's are a censor's best friend. DNS services are taking the opposite appro…

Making your own filter choices should not be referred to as "censorship". Censorship is when the choice is taken away.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by atonse »

I use NextDNS to BLOCK porn sites, etc from my kids’ devices. I hope you aren’t changing your ethos as a company, although I don’t know, maybe your customers are changing and causing you to pivot.

Because I don’t want any chance of this stuff affecting the blocks we use for minors, etc.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by rendaw »

perihelions wrote: post #8

As a remark, not a criticism, such a deliberate promotion is probably illegal in the UK market, > "But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce "highly effective" methods to check user age must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o

"Under no circumstances should you use Mullvad VPN (https://mullvad.net/en), available for 5Eur/mo - also payable in Bitcoin, to avoid our age verification checks!"

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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atonse wrote: post #73

I use NextDNS to BLOCK porn sites, etc from my kids’ devices. I hope you aren’t changing your ethos as a company, although I don’t know, maybe your customers are changing and causing you to pivot. Because I don’t want any chance of this stuff affecting the blocks we use for minors, etc.

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Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by pogue »

Hey @nextdns team. I'm a long time customer of NextDNS. I've been using your service for a few years now, but it seems a large amount of your primarily offered services & blocklist offerings are SEVERLY out of date. I detailed that here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextdns/s/IX2mUogHPK

Your input on this thread would be greatly appreciated, as the community wants NextDNS to be the best service it can be.

I do appreciate the addition of the Age Verification Bypass, though. Many users on r/nextdns are trying to guess how it works. Proxing specific domain requests to show the user is from another country is our best guess. But I would still be very interested in the specifics.

Thanks.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by cedws »

FiReaNG3L wrote: post #20

Better than that at least in the UK, they are not handing the data to the government, but to unregulated, diverse third parties - what could go wrong.

Free VPNs are also at the top of the UK App Store. All of them look extremely dodgy, probably ran by foreign adversaries seizing the opportunity to slurp data.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by SoftTalker »

jofla_net wrote: post #70
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had to upload my ID card to send money, open a bank account online, verify my identity for a dating app, book an international flight, and ironically to register for the app to have an electronic version of my id on my phone, and weirdly to pay a traffic ticket (why do they care who pays it?), get a discount on my Amazon Prime subscription, and finally to reset my password for my ID.me login for government websi…

Its not the 'voluntary' services that may or may not want to see your ID, its the existence of any and all Mandatory legislation, which would be a nightmare. This is a tech site so I imagine the average user has some deeper understanding than most(technically), but I guess imagination is off the table. What this would do (requiring all sites) is basically be the end for any and all attempts against identity fraud pro…

It would be a great thing, because it would finally force us to have somthing better than "I can present a piece of plastic with my picture and some numbers on it" as proof of identity.

Re: Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification"

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Post by graemep »

perihelions wrote: post #8

As a remark, not a criticism, such a deliberate promotion is probably illegal in the UK market, > "But Ofcom says platforms required to introduce "highly effective" methods to check user age must not host, share or permit content that encourages use of VPNs to get around age checks. The government has also told the BBC it would be illegal for platforms to do so." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o

That only applies to those platforms that are required to do "highly effective age checks".

i.e. the top category of "harmful" site cannot point people to VPNs as a way to avoid age verification. Everyone else can tell people about VPNs as a way to avoid age verification. The media have been doing so for a start.

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