It seems that the UK Age Law is harmful to the sites that comply with, which helps those who do not do that

The United Kingdom recently started The enforcement of the rules of the safety law onlineWashington Post reports It already has a major impact on web traffic.

UK law now requires pornographic sites to verify the ages of its users through means such as facial tests and driver licenses; It also requires that online platforms prevent children from exposure to adult content (this is why sites like Bluesky and Reddit are starting to check the ages of some users).

To study the impact of the law, the post says it has examined the best 90 pornographic sites based on the data of the UK visitors from similar, as 14 sites still did not perform an age examination. It seems that all 14 have seen a dramatic increase in traffic, as one of them saw double traffic on an annual basis.

Meanwhile, many web sites were apparently complied with the law while criticizing, or a petition urging cancellation, or even providing instructions to circumvent it.

John Scott Rilton, a citizen laboratory researcher at the University of Toronto, told the Post newspaper that this “clarifying a textbook for the unintended consequences law,” adding that the law “suppresses traffic into platforms compatible with the leadership of users to the sites without checking age.”