VPN or age verication

[Funlover360]

Living in Florida, we have new laws in place as of January 1st that restrict access to certain websites.
It seems that the options are either VPN or age verification sign-ups.
Have other posters here have experience with any of this?
What has worked best to get full access to websites not blocked?
Thanks for your wisdom on this.

 

[Escierto]

Went through this in Texas. VPN is a wonderful thing.

 

[AG31]

Went through this in Texas. VPN is a wonderful thing.

How does this work? I thought a VPN just masked your IP address. How does it "verify" that you're an adult?

 

[Escierto]

How does this work? I thought a VPN just masked your IP address. How does it "verify" that you're an adult?

It doesn't verify that you are adult. By changing your apparent IP address, all the adult sites do not block you because they think you are not coming from a location in Florida or Texas.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

How does this work? I thought a VPN just masked your IP address. How does it "verify" that you're an adult?

Surfshark is a well known one. Basically you could pick your location. So if in Fla, just use the link for NY or WA. Those states don’t have the firewalls and you enter whatever sight you want.

With the possible exception of Pornhub and Xhamster now. I’ve tried to open links people have posted in these threads and they still ask for verification to enter. No matter if I’m using the VPN or not.

Just as a general security issue, you should be using a VPN anyhow.

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Buy your porn. Preserve it on those antiquated DVDs. Problem solved. There are also other options for people with ... fewer morals. If you are particularly kinky, this could be problematic, but still a better option than relying on someone else to host your fetish. If it means that much to you, it's worth it.

 

[Celand]

VPN is the best way....

 

[grey228]

VPN has issues with certain sites. The same script kiddies use them for DDOS attacks, so your VPN service will have its domains blocked or range-banned.

 

[Bray123]

Opera browser has a built-in free VPN that you can switch on/off and choose where in the world you want to pretend to be (I use it for accessing news sites that restrict access to local consumers).
It can be too slow for video clips but as a free experiment to see what works, it works for me.

 

[NCWSLvr]

Second for surfshark/vpn, though I have done the age verification for some sites. With VPN, you can even make your location an entire other country so you don’t have to worry about you personal data like you do with the age verification stuff. Despite what they say about not storing it, we’ve been told lots of stuff from whole bunches of sites in the past. If banks can’t protect our shit, what makes us think these other providers will?