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The reason you're seeing so many blocks is due to Arizona House Bill 2112, which officially went into effect on September 26, 2025. Here is the breakdown of why this is happening:
The bill requires any website where more than one-third of the content is "sexual material harmful to minors" to verify that users are at least 18 years old using a government ID or a "commercially reasonable" verification method (like Yoti, which your profile mentions you use).
Rather than implementing these verification systems—which major providers like Aylo (the parent company of Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn) claim are "ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous" to user privacy—they have chosen to block Arizona IP addresses entirely.
While there isn't a formal statistic that 90% of sites are gone, the major networks that dominate that industry have all pulled out of the state. If you primarily visit the most popular mainstream sites in that category, you are likely blocked from nearly all of them.
The law allows parents to sue sites for USD 10,000 per day (and up to USD 250,000 in total) if a minor accesses the content. Most companies decided the legal risk in Arizona wasn't worth the cost of compliance.
Most people in Arizona have been using a VPN to bypass these blocks by making it look like they are browsing from a state without these specific age-verification requirements.
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