{"id":42044,"date":"2025-09-03T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42044"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:53:06","slug":"age-verification-is-driving-people-to-shadier-porn-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42044","title":{"rendered":"Age Verification Is Driving People to Shadier Porn Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pornhub-stock-art-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Age verification laws in the U.K. are tanking traffic for sites that comply, and boosting the ones that don&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/age-verification-is-driving-people-to-shadier-porn-sites-2000651884\">Age Verification Is Driving People to Shadier Porn Sites<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>nature finds a way&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But the data suggests the opposite might be happening. Porn sites that skipped the new ID checks have seen their audiences grow, while the ones that followed the rules are losing users. Some of these sites have tripled their audiences in August compared to last year, according to the\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age verification laws in the U.K. are tanking traffic for sites that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[768,166],"class_list":["post-42044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-porn","tag-unexpected-consequences","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42047,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42044\/revisions\/42047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}