I've just verified my age on XHamster... Serious question.

wow, nice...

cost? wonder what company they´re using as there´s going to be millions of Brits wanting to watch free porn from xhamster...


I love xhamster, faphouse is a good monthly income for us

Very good AI to differentiate btwn 17 years 11 months versus 18 years and a month.

Amazing.

I believe it said 'Yoti' ?

Well in that case I would logically assume that it would err on the side of caution, and request some form of ID - However, for the vast number of people who are older adults like myself, it was instant free and painless. Literally 10 seconds...

the issue on a board full of site owners is customer cost vs site owner cost. its like a buck per verification. free for you but it cost that site some money.

i serve site owners, so i want the best deal for them. most don't want to pay a per verification fee just to show a tour. and you can't really show much without it in the UK. they are fining the domains, SFW tour or not.

really fuck the UK but there is a customer base.


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The Yoti white paper with their graph of false positves and negatives.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/p...an_Digital.pdf

You couldn’t give less of a shit that people know you watch porn, but most people do...

You like it; but you also love shit.

Age verification, right now, is a mess for both the site operator (as you mentioned,) and the user. I know it seems painless at the moment, especially with the method you used, but there are a lot of implications at play, and none of this is really comfortable when you peel back the first layer.

When you purchase a regulated vice in person, or through delivery, you need to show both your identification (which may be scanned) and your face. This is so that someone can look at the ID, confirm that it's real (which places the risk on the employer,) and then confirm you are on that ID. This is painless in person because it can happen in a matter of moments, and it's not like the employee's mind is being recorded. Worst case scenario, you're on CCTV, which is localized to the store you bought from.

But now replace the employee with a robot that uses cameras. They scan your face, make an imprint of you, and match it to your ID. Suddenly there's a new implication of you being tracked--your likeness being recorded. Of course you're being tracked by your phone, but it's not really the same thing as being digitized by a private company. Are you more or less comfortable with a robot recording everything that you're doing, who you are, and the vice you've selected?

Now, alcohol is much more accepted in society, but adult content really isn't. Especially if your fetish is niche.

When you do this with the IRS, you do it through a regulated company that needs to meet government litmus tests. I am not suggesting these are inherently better than other private companies, but id.me at least is based in the United States and has to answer for any crimes here.

Let's talk about the solutions that we have right now. You used age estimation through AI. First, how much do you care that your face is being digitized? Or that it might be used later? Are you afraid of xhamster using it, or the person who provided the technology getting hacked, leaking it, or selling it to the highest bidder? You may not be personally concerned about this, but there are legitimate issues with this, especially for wealthy paying customers.

Everyone in web programming will tell you that there is no such thing as a perfectly secure system. I do not doubt that these companies have good intentions, but there could be a 0-day exploit yet uncovered.

On AI age estimation, I've posted about this before, but I think it's a huge red flag. We're using an AI model, with unknown training data, to identify whether someone based, on their likeness, is over the age of majority. Not to mention we're getting people used to this concept, which is, in my opinion, risky. One day someone is going to release a whitepaper detailing how they were able to bypass age estimation and then AGs are going to pounce on that.

Yoti is the only one I've seen who has put a whitepaper out defending the technology, and it's encouraging that they're willing to do it (and I trust them more for it,) but it's also discouraging technology based on the data. If you are required to set a threshold age of 30 to be sure that someone is of age, then we have a lot of implications about accuracy and risk.

Face-api.js is the most popular open source library for these things, and reportedly uses IMDB. Paired with Tesseract.js, it can read text from an ID, but neither of these things can confirm that you aren't an AI yourself being projected as input. Who is actually checking that the ID isn't fake?

I wouldn't want to be the insurance provider for age estimation via AI.

Any solution that involves a real person, to me, is the only risk-averse solution. But no one is employing that because it's costly. iDenfy is the only KYC that I know of that has a real person as part of the process, but it's much more costly for the site operator, and much more invasive for the user, than someone like VerifyMy or Yoti.

I think that the government, if they are going to require age verification, should build a solution, like id.me, that lets you zero-proof knowledge identify your age to their requirements and let it be saved in an mDL or OpenID format. Then you just need to supply the encrypted token and have a centralized API to confirm it. The government does this with id.me, but our industry doesn't.

We are *stuck* with age verification, whether we like it or not. I think a lot of people are convinced "free" and "low cost" age verifications are the solution because this industry does not want to take on additional costs; but at what cost of risk?

Now you've been verified there will you have to be verified again when you look at the site again?

I've just looked at Xhamster and they've not asked for any ID and I'm in the UK.

Stalin, Idi Amin, Robispierre...would have loved this idea.

Blue bit...

Let me elaborate further on what I meant - Yes, of course its going to be a burden for those operating paysites. I'm not completely fucking stupid - I just play that way on GFY...

The point I was making was that people were saying that it was going to mean that 'we the punters' would have to pay - And it did look that way to me, first time I saw it active on a fancentro site... See pic below:

Now that wants me to pay $1.5 to just view a tour! Total turn off, and I can see that not sitting well with anyone.

Not only is it paying to see a fucking tour, but it also involves giving over a credit card to pay. Possibly even uploading ID too? I dont know as that's as far as I have gone - That WOULD be a problem.

A problem for the customer - as well as a problem for the website owner as well = LESS Customers...

However, all I was trying to say was that if you can just do a face scan, like I did, and it is free, and I dont need to upload any IDS or give over payment details etc... Then that's ideal.

That isn't going to put people off in droves - That's all I was getting at...

No, MOST people dont give a fuck. Nearly everyone watches porn. Most people dont want to upload IDs - Most people dont want to have to provide payment information (Unless they have made an informed choice to choose to join a site) - If you are talking about people who have zero intention of ever paying for anything, and just wanna free load - Well who cares?

You are right I dont care who knows that I watch porn - Hell I've been shooting it and producing it and occasionally appearing in it since the mid 1980s...

I'm pretty sure that anyone who says 'I dont want anyone to know I watch porn' just wanna freeload anonymously. As they probably have done for years...

If most people were that worried, there would never have been the booming paysite business that there was...

TL:DR - I dissagree with your assumption.

Thanks. But the question is will they need to do this every time you look at the site? I assume not. I was just wondering how in future they would know it's you and that you had been verified.

part of it is to make an account - you dont have to give real name or 'real' email address if you are not wanting to do so - A working email, yes, but not your main one...

Then you are logged in when you visit and its all good...

Thanks. I thought of that after I'd posted. Makes a lot of sense.

So would you rather get verified or get a vpn ?

Not really relevant tbh - I'm simply giving my comments on my experience with age verification, based on going through the process itself - Much like used I occasionally used to join paysites, simply in order to see how a customer experienced it...

Tell 'average joe' he has to pay a fee to see a tour, upload ID or give his CC, and he will no doubt be learning about VPNs real soon - Tell him he just needs to do a 10 second face scan, and its just business as usual... That was my point...

Well face scan seems cheaper

Verify your ass, wimp . . .

face scan is not going to pass any legal age verification test. there's no way that's UK compliant without holding up an ID or dropping a credit card.

it would suck ass to have to pay a couple bucks to see a tour, but not bad if getting verified once lets you see tours and free content on a thousand sites. if you live in a shitty place, AV is your burden to carry. thank a politician

i'm pushing ageverification.org verifications to PornCMS site owners (as per my thread lol). it costs the customer $1.88 but it works on any other site using that verification.

they updated their codebase and now the embed code has geo targeting. you just drop the embed code at the bottom of the body tag and it will redirect to the verification page if its required in the visitor's state or country (assuming they don't know how VPN works).

there's a checkbox on the Verify page that says they will Notify you when new sites start using ageverification.org. so that's interesting. maybe they'll publish a list?

we are coming full circle back to AV networks of the late 90s. Verify at one site and you are verified on hundreds or thousands of others.

we have to adopt an industry standard for that to work, so i am nominating ageverification.org. that way we all get promoted by them.



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The age false positives and negatives graph on Yoti's own white paper prove face scanning is worthless, no matter how "easy" it is.

The endgame goal is obvious.

Selling wigs and false beards looks like a promising business in this context

Thats kind of expensive for free tube traffic...interresting.

Im wondering if somehow it could link to a google account? Meaning that you have a google account (either your real one, or one you setup specially) and you do one verification on that - Then, if a site can offer you a google login (log in with your google account) that account could be verified wherever you use it?

Meaning that anywhere that has the login with google can use that as a verification? OK, it doesn't solve the entire problem, but its a step towards a universal 'One Time Verification' scheme that 'could possibly' be used by operators across a range of sites as a 'Free Method' of verification?

ya i think the big issue right now is what the fuck qualifies as age verification?

UK is just deciding on a case by case basis? there's no guidelines?

some are saying a credit card isn't age verification because it can be borrowed or stolen. they will only accept ID verification?

i like the verified by Google/Apple/Tinder idea


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Yes, all unknown atm, but interesting times ahead. My only thought would be that if they are not going to say face is acceptable, why would Xhamster be spending money on getting me face ID'd?

But as you say, no one knows yet...

AI age prediction model?

maybe they don't really give a fuck but need some sort of defense. we all have to pretend we tried lol


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amazing isn't it

UK (OFCOM) have given a lot of guidance and most site owners have been following their suggested regs for some time now. They even did a 3 day online seminar which anyone could register for. For paysite owners, the rules have been in place for months now (unlike tube sites) so if you're leaving it this late...

I just visited Reddit this morning (NSFW sub) and I had to put my date of birth in before I could go any further. I thought that would be it but I immediately got asked to age verify using a phone/face scan.
It was quick and easy and having sites like Reddit do this, prob helps as surfers may find it the norm as time goes on.
Privacy will always be an issue but everyone has phone which is the ultimate tracking device ;)

Those using face recognition solutions don't set the age limit at 18. If you do, you're falling foul of the regs. Only Fans set the limit too low and got pulled up on it not so long ago.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/of...113952107.html
Estimated age of 23-25 is often the norm.

wankers show your faces lol

Quick and painless, but at what expense?

Isn't this how it starts? Create barriers to access data (take away free speech) and don't even need to explain how this is a total violation of privacy, and then, the data collection.

And nothing is ever really deleted.

Lonely, bored, drunk, horny, or all of the above, no way in hell would I ever provide a face scan and/or id to watch porn.

i didn't leave it this late lol. my clients and site owners have been talking about it for a year or more.

PornCMS added a one click blur tool that blurs all the site thumbnails for non-members.

then we added Landing pages that can overtake a homepage (or load independently) because site owners wanted an easy way to build SFW landing pages.

now this week we added AgeVerification.org integration, which is also a one-click option that pops up the verification window for affected localities.

https://porncms.com/?mb=QXJ0aWNsZXxO...JlM2gzeTdpMg==


all of the billers i talked to said blurring thumbnails is fine. most said adding a birthdate popup is fine. and all of them say a SFW tour is fine.

most of these state laws became law this year. the UK law might have been in the works awhile, but it doesn't affect every site. it only affects UK owners. they have no jurisdiction over anyone else. same with the state laws.

i code every day - at least until i start pouring drinks - and most of it is requests by site owners. they generally want to do the minimum possible for compliance. so going overboard is a waste of time.

we're doing the minimum as the requirements change. with luck all this bullshit will go away.


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OFCOM (UK) have power worldwide - certainly not only UK site/business owners.
They've already investigated Score Group who are are US based and made them comply.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safe...raphic-content

Likewise, with the biggest porn site Porhub who tried resisting for ages have finally caved in too: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safe...rom-next-month

Tomorrow is D-day though with OFCOM with lots of huge NON UK companies (Bluesky, Discord, Grindr, Reddit and X), platforms and sites all committing to AV.
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safe...-from-tomorrow

The days of where your business (or server) is based is pretty much irrelevant now.

OFCOM (UK) have power worldwide - certainly not only UK site/business owners.
Wrong.

ofcom.org.uk
Ofcom is the UK’s regulator for the communications services that we use and rely on each day. ...

They're the fcc of the uk and if one's host is not an anglophile, then...

Here's another case on how the porn industry drives technology. It's pretty impressive!

Where I think we are at right now is this: There are now several solutions to Age Verification. YOTI is great. We have our own AI Age Verification but YOTI's is really comprehensive.

The problem is the legal side. Every region seems to have their own rules and policies. Do adult sites need to retain a copy of the photo ID, or just a token? How do site owners legally prove that customer Joe Blow is an adult without the ID? What if Joe Blow signs up from 1 region then logs in from another where the legal requirements are different?

Age tech seems to be moving faster than the legal side, leaving legit porn pedlers scrambling. Again.